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Slalom (H. R. Sokal, Vienna) is the first full-length skiing picture with a plot to be shown in the U. S. It takes its name from the skier's term for a downhill race around obstacles. Slalom's plot runs downhill all the way, is inconsequential except as a frame for the finest skiing and skiing photography the cinema has yet displayed...
...LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE-Joseph Hone-Macmillan ($3). First full-length biography of the Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited...
Come and Get It (Samuel Goldwyn) gives Actor Edward Arnold, recently seen as Diamond Jim Brady and General John Sutter, another subject for his full-length screen portraiture of hearty, colorful U. S. types. Lifted this time from Edna Ferber fiction instead of history, the subject is Bernard Glasgow, Wisconsin lumber millionaire. The result, against a background first of lumber camps and small-town saloons, later of early 20th-century urban plutocracy, is an extraordinarily warm and lively picture of one of the few romantic aspects of the U. S. which the cinema has so far neglected...
...operatic picture. It shows one of those young men who work half-naked on the reconstruction projects, overcome by the midday sun and lying full-length on the turf. A nearby woman eyes him pityingly as though he were dead. . . . The young man really is dead, but it is not important...
Last week Allan Nevins, whose biography of Grover Cleveland won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1932, offered a full-length portrait of the Secretary that clarified the disorder of Grant's regime, revealed aspects of U. S. political life of which few voters have been aware. Fish was an excellent choice as central figure for such a study. Unchangeable, incorruptible, with his prejudices, political views and limitations firmly fixed by the time he took office, he served as a standard of consistency against which the dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History...