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Tatjana. The German film company, Ufa, has won merited praise in the U. S. for its fine films. This is one of its worst. The aimless story concerns a Russian prince, his princess, Tatjana, and his ingrate prot...
...film opened the new Manhattan playhouse of a serious-eyed little group who call themselves the Art Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...
...slapsticky adaptation of James Gleason & Richard Taber's Odyssey of a dim-witted pugilist and his pessimistic trainer. A grinning, guffawing, snickering audience testified that the film version is likely to prove as successful as the stage original...
...films taken of Roger Follansbee '30, and H. A. Lewis Jr. '28, have been chosen, by the judges of the film contest being conducted by the First National Pictures and College Humor to enter the finals along with 38 others. Of the pictures taken in most of the large colleges and universities in the country 300 were selected and sent on to Hollywood where this semifinal selection has been completed. On May 23 the final ten will be chosen from these 40 by the executives of the First National Pictures in conjunction with important newspaper syndicate men from magazine...
...chosen in these finals will be given an eight week try-out in the First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with a salary of $75 a week for the first six months, which will be gradually increased so that during the last year of the contact they will each be receiving at least $750 a week...