Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema. After many a month of bickering Paramount Publix last week acquired control of Famous Players Canadian Corp., largest Canadian cinema producers. Fox Film Corp. last week announced a $25,000,000 production program, a $5,000,000 program of plant expansion. Radio-Keith-Orpheum bought the Bratter-Pollak theatre circuit (62 New Jersey theatres). Warner Brothers held a convention at Atlantic City, made many an announcement...
Mary Lewis, one of the few comely operatic sopranos, said she had refused to appear in a Paris film production, La Belle Helene, because the management stipulated that she wear a transparent Grecian gown...
Less experienced is Frau Dyhrenfurth. whose good looks are only excelled by her tennis. In charge of supplies, she has in her train caviar, Swedish bread, 500 bottles of Munich beer, champagne, whiskey, brandy, a phonograph, 50,000 feet of motion picture film, three cameras, a dark room tent, a typewriter, face cream, a ton of Swiss chocolate...
...Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities...
...Pond (Paramount). This is another film that has been tailored?far less elaborately than The Love Parade?to the measure of Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier's ability to convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter?Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily...