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...Christmas Carol (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) leans a little too heavily on the assumption that cinemaddicts' eyes, starved by months of Hollywood's thin fare, will not be able to keep from watering over Charles Dickens' famed classic about Scrooge, Marley, Cratchits and Christmas spirit. Consequently, while A Christmas Carol is doubtless an invaluable addition to holiday lists of worth-while pictures for juvenile audiences, it cannot be recommended unreservedly to adults-unless to those who feel that the mere transposition of such a classic to the Hollywood screen constitutes an excuse for general hosannas...
Surviving descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps are naturally numerous. When one of them saw Suez in London last fortnight he called a family meeting in Paris to decide whether to sue Twentieth Century-Fox. Remembering that Princess Irina Youssoupov had received some $900,000 damages from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for having libeled her in Rasputin and the Empress, Twentieth Century-Fox officials hastily offered to show the picture to all the de Lesseps before it was publicly released in France...
Dramatic School (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In Manhattan last fortnight, critics were delighted by the premiere of Ballerina, which, made in France, concerned itself with the hopes and perplexities of Paris ballet students. In Manhattan this week, critics will have the opportunity of comparing Ballerina with a picture which, made in Hollywood, concerns itself with the hopes and perplexities of Paris drama students. Unlike the moppet personnel of Ballerina, the personnel of Dramatic School are full-grown young actresses. Unlike the cast of Ballerina, mostly made up of real students in the French National Opera school, the cast of Dramatic School...
...Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Triangle drama, recklessly adapted from Keith Winter's play, about a cabaret dancer (Joan Crawford) who marries an aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) and falls in love with his brother (Robert Young...
Spring Madness (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Mildly amusing little collegiate comedy headlined by Lew Ayres and Maureen O'Sullivan and notable chiefly for the way in which Actor Burgess Meredith, hailed three years ago as the Hamlet of 1940. belies his reputation by bringing to his impersonation of a Harvard senior the same mannerisms he used when spouting very blank verse in Winterset...