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...Metropolitan's Sadko. The opera demands elaborate, fantastic pictures and, in most instances, Russian Designer Serge Sovdeikine realized them. Particularly striking was the banqueting scene where bearded, bright-coated merchants sat bibbing under a queerly-angled, vivid roof; the scene on the quay where gabbling townspeople watched the crack-brained Sadko fishing for his fortune; the bottom of the sea with its fish-folk orgy. Of the performers, Tenor Edward Johnson as Sadko sang sternly to the merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers...
...both possible and probable that sea currents during the next fortnight would crack a passageway through the pack at about the 180th degree of longitude. The two Byrd ships could then get through, load personnel and goods, and scurry back before the pack reformed...
Especially is this true of John Barrymore in "General Crack", now playing at the Fenway. If you like (1) John, or (2) melodrama, "General Crack" is likely to prove much more than satisfactory. A dislike of one or the other, if not too predominating, will not ruin all vestiges of pleasure...
Metropolitan -- "General Crack." John Barrymore up to his old stunts in his first all talking picture with scenes in technicolor...
...Cuno had just landed at Bremen with Herr Stimming from the crack ship of the latter's line, the Bremen, fastest in the world. On the dock the two men exchanged elaborate, guttural compliments, for Herr Stimming frequently crosses in Dr. Cuno's ships-the idea being that one eye on the enemy is worth two on oneself. Stepping briskly into Herr Stimming's office, the General Directors barked their joint statement at a bristle-haired male stenographer who neatly transcribed it thus...