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...able David (Columbia). This was a hard assignment for Director John Blystone in one way and an easy one in another: his product would be judged in comparison with the silent version Richard Barthelmess starred in a few years ago; but he could use the Barthelmess version as a model for the talkie. The new Tol'able David is an effective, bucolic melodrama, not handled well enough to keep the dialog from slowing it up but finely acted by Richard Cromwell. The story is Joseph Hergesheimer's anecdote of a frustrated young mountaineer's struggle against...
Last week Stokowski anticipated the inevitable comparison with a press statement which lavishly extolled the genius of Toscanini in terms applicable to any great conductor, perhaps even to Stokowski himself. Excerpt: "The melodic line he molds just as a sculptor molds in soft clay the forms appearing under his fingers. . . . His originality of conception comes from his expressing the essence and soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through...
...comparison of receipts for the association during the same period with the previous twelvemonth in 1928-29, showed an increase of more than $212,000; expenses increased in 1929-30 over the earlier twelvemonth by approximately...
Single day holidays, such as the one just past, may provide a needed professorial respite, and occasionally, when they happen to fall on a Monday, allow the extension of a weekend, but the benefits to be derived are small in comparison with the interruption of work and the disorganization of lectures which is involved...
...Nurse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This picture fails in many ways to do justice to its theme-the woman's side of the War-yet it is a courageous and fairly honest effort. The picture of mental and physical conditions at the great French base-hospitals is restrained in comparison with the descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they...