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...screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
Fair child Aviation Corp., outgrowth of Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp. formed ten years ago by youthful Sherman Mills Fairchild, is a holding company held in turn, until last week, by Aviation Corp. It included Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corp., Fairchild Engine Corp., Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co. Inc., Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp. and Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. Of late, Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corp. and Fairchild Engine Corp. have operated at heavy losses; large expenditures would be necessary for experimentation and development of new products before the plants could be operated on a paying basis. Fairchild Aviation Corp. has not the money. Last...
...Next to these will be computing rooms a drafting room and an instrument room, in which the University master clock will be set to run in a vacuum. Back of these is a modern lecture hall to seat 260, in the rear of which will be a motion' picture, camera enclosure housing the latest talking projectors. Beside this hall will be a workshop in which students may make or repair their instruments...
...incidents that are impossible to forget. In "Reducing" Miss Dressler has said that last word on getting into an upper berth. She is also the author of a consummately executed pistol wedding. The value of the picture is not diminished by the fact that the star never leaves the camera, but it is to be regretted that so skillful a comedienne as Miss Dressler should see fit to resort to occasional touches, light to be sure, of vulgarity to enhance gags that could exist independently...
...latest Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer "miracle picture", filmed in the heart of Darkest Africa at the risk of life and bank account, includes superb sound studies of savage men and beasts, who have entered into the spirit of the thing with a gusto which must at times have embarrassed the camera...