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...John Balderston's old trick with time-turning his hero's hindsight into prophetic genius-is still a neat trick, and the new movie has some fun with it. But Actor Power lacks Actor Howard's charm and talent, and his inter-century romance with Ann Blyth (who turns up at the end in a 20th century reincarnation) makes something gooey and adolescent out of what once seemed hauntingly otherworldly. The picture may give moviegoers a yen to go backward in time themselves, if only to 1933, when Leslie Howard was starring in Berkeley Square...
...Blyth plays the slutty princess of Samarkand with a dead pan and what sounds very much like a runny nose. David Farrar is an ideal match for her as he slogs stupidly through the role of Sir Guy of Devon, a Crusader even more preposterous than the Crusades themselves. Genghis Khan, one of the great leaders and tacticians of history, is portrayed as a mean, irritable, slow-witted braggart who doesn't talk too good...
...Some of them: Importer Brayton Wilbur, Standard Oil of California's T. S. Petersen, Banker Charles R. Blyth, Stanford U.'s Wallace Sterling, Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe, San Francisco Chronicle Editor Paul Smith...
...riches story of a great opera star who, after his triumphs all over Europe, supposedly had to put up with a cool reception at the Met and the social snobbishness of the man (Carl Benton Reid) who was both its chief patron and the father of the girl (Ann Blyth) he loved. It is a story full of the kind of quaint dialect which, designed to sound like a literal English translation of Italian, sounds only like pure Ruritanian...
Most phenomenal is the special popularity of Ann Blyth, 22, who draws half her mail from Korea. Ann's fans want to see her photographed just from the neck up. Sample: "Please send us a head picture with that certain dreaminess in your eyes, just a sweet, simple picture...