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...WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS-Lang-ston Hughes-Knopf ($2.50). Fourteen short stories about whites by a black. Bitter but not otherwise remarkable...
Most notable were Director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), on his way to Hollywood for the second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with...
Engaged. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member of Georgetown University, son of the onetime Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Plays; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene." Married. Helena Woolworth McCann, 21, granddaughter of the late 5?-&-10? Store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 27, poloist; in Oyster Bay, Long Island...
...director to supervise the whole production, had bits made under different directors and assembled the parts when completed. Best line: Butterworth's comment on Durante's party: "This place is littered with movie celebrities - and that makes some litter." Channel Crossing (Gaumont British). A financier (Matheson Lang) with a Christ-like beard is threatened with ruin when a clerk (Anthony Bushell), in love with his secretary (Constance Cummings), overhears that some of his securities are forged. The financier takes steps to kill the clerk. When he learns that his secretary loves Bushell, he spares the clerk...
...Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot: the financier, just after he has taken an overdose of adrenalin, giving the deck steward a ?5 note...