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Marie Cord revealed two of her heart's desires--and a little bit more--last night while cavorting around The Gay Nineties in a moving little epic titled "Mrs. Bottomly's Bustle...
Farrebique. A year on a French farm becomes fine epic and lyric film poetry (TIME, March...
...rare friendly moments, his father nicknamed him "Mr. Hurricane." The simple outline of Mirabeau's doings becomes a kind of epic of frustration whose misery Madame Vallentin, engrossed in her psychological analyses, does not seem to appreciate. He was ugly, and so he was the butt of the brilliant nobility, and a burden to his father who was at first ashamed of him and then, as Mirabeau developed as a writer, jealous...
...through the latest Tyrone Power Technicolor epic, this reviewer waited eagerly for that standard but entertaining scene where four thousand howling savages descend (at $25 an hour) on the hero's intrepid little band of one hundred (fifteen of whom are wounded in the left shoulder). It never came, and that's just about the trouble with "Captain from Castile"; it never quite comes off. Every scene seems to lead inevitably to a gigantic battle in the final reel, but all suddenly comes to naught as Mr. Power and friends march off into a sunset fadeout...
Transplanting a show from Broadway to Hollywood involves something more than railway fare. Somewhere in transit "The Voice of the Turtle" acquired new scenes, more people, and a coy chastity. What was once a one-set, three-character production now boasts Wayne Marris, as many extras as the next epic, and intimate glimpses of New York ranging from a corner grocery store to the Pennsylvania Hotel...