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...Theatre last week, C. I. O.'s John Llewellyn Lewis showed up in a starched shirt. Before the picture started, everyone stood for The Star-Spangled Banner.* Both tributes were fitting, for Juárez is the most political and patriotic canto in the whole Warner cycle of epic biography. Produced at a cost of $2,000,000, over a period of two years, with the services of six Academy Award winners and a cast of 1,188, it is not only the most ambitious production in Warner history but by all odds the most spectacular picture...
...hairy-chested Western badman. But the chest of "The Oklahoma Kid" is sparsely covered with hair. In fact, the whole production has little muscle, little mind, small sense, and less sensibility. Cagney is thrown into a weak part to satisfy the ambitions of the directors to produce an "epic drama". All they achieve is a lot of noise, no subtlety, no poignancy, no emotional strength. "The Oklahoma Kid" is no epic,--just a second feature misplaced...
Harvard's standard-bearer admits that he would welcome an opportunity to test the prowess of the numerous pretenders to his crown who have sprung up since his epic feat on March 26. "I really doubt whether all of them have been following the rules of the IGGA (Intercollegiate Goldfish Gulping Association)," Clark said. The record has kept on soaring sky-high, as many a lad has made his fame and fortune. At present Joseph Deliberate is accredited (unofficially) with bringing the title to Clark University by downing $9, eclipsing Gordon Southworth's 67 for Middlesex College...
Already on view are Let Freedom Ring and Stagecoach. In production are Union Pacific, Dodge City and The Return of The Cisco Kid. Projected by the Marx Brothers is an epic entitled Go West, which will aim to end the cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...
From the mists of days long past comes a saga of weird and wild deeds. From father to son, for generation upon generation, the epic has been passed on until it has finally reached the Vag, who fells it his duty to give the saga the immortality of the Printed Page...