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...Cinema Tap Dancer Eleanor Powell's version of the hula-hula. Fumed the Society's president: "In the true hula the dancer waves her hands to indicate a fish. She moves her hands to her eyes to indicate eyes. . . . There are many sorts of hulas, including epic hulas. There can even be frivolous or comic hulas. But Miss Powell's is not any of them. It is a serious mistake and an insult to confuse the hula-hula with the hootchy-kootchy." Asked whether the body was moved at all, another member coldly replied...
...heard at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House today is Wagner opera. And the most important and painstaking of its Wagnerian productions are those of the two Nibelungen Ring cycles which attract some 8,000 listeners annually. No light-headed cafe socialites are they. Wagner's Nibelungen epic consists of four ponderous operas (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) totaling 14 hours of music & drama, requires tremendous listening endurance. But for eight years every Metropolitan Ring cycle has been sung to a sold-out house. Last week the first of this year's cycles opened. For a continuous two hours...
John Ford, the director of "The Informer" and specialist in fog effects, has made a rather exciting adventure story out of "Submarine Patrol," celluloid epic of the U-boat chasing "splinter fleet." If you can sink back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood...
Jesse James (Twentieth Century-Fox). From 1901 to 1903, 121 "dime novels" (price, 5?) about Jesse Woodson James were published by Street & Smith, sold about 6,000,000 copies. Last week, to coincide with the release of the $2,000,000 cinema epic, the original publishers reprinted No. 1 of the series, Jesse James, the Outlaw...
...Governor-elect W. Lee O'Daniel of Texas celebrated the season by writing a ten-stanza biographical epic which he mailed to friends. Excerpts...