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Seven Keys to Baldpate (RKO). Earl Derr Biggers wrote the story. George M. Cohan made a play of it. Douglas MacLean was in it as a silent picture. As a talkie it proves again that the mechanism of the mystery story is an ideal device for comedy. Richard Dix is the young author who bets that he can write a book in 24 hours and sits down to work in a lonely house in the country to which he believes he has the only key. Typical shot: $25,000 in stage money burning in the fireplace at Baldpate...
...There is something ideal in this marriage of immense interest. Many marriages fail for reasons other than those given in the court records*. . . When athletes of the Helen Wills type marry you can rest assured that the basic natural law of physical perfection in mating has been fulfilled. Little Poker Face is a young woman whose physical condition must be nearly perfect by virtue of the strenuous sport at which she excelled...
...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...romantic jumbles as are contemporary London, New York and all Continental cities. According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery. Obstacles will be man's persistent following of the least resistance line, his respect for the past. As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly. His projected city has a concentrated business district in the centre of vast areas of suburban residence zones. In the morning the workers pass by rapid...
...former lover kills her present one. No introvert, Diana does not often brood; and when she does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give the ideal of modern emancipated woman: a realistic romantic, he has called her by the name of a goddess...