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Fury (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stabs into its subject, mob violence, with a variety of searchlights, sociological, humanistic, dramatic, while the subject itself turns under the beams until each phase of it has been successively and rather fearfully illuminated...
...going off in her shaking hands, shatters a vase, knocks the cap off a musician's head, breaks a globe in the chandelier; a colonel of the Sixth Lancers, full of cocktails, duplicates these feats, shoots down the chandelier to boot. Three Wise Guys (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another one from the private dream world of Damon Runyon. A hard-boiled restatement of the Nativity story, it presents a trio of crooks whose female front (Betty Furness) falls in love with a rich man's son (Robert Young) whom they intend to swindle. When the young couple marry...
Speed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an incredibly hackneyed story of a gruff mechanic with revolutionary ideas on carburetors who falls in love with a fellow-worker in an automobile factory. She turns out to be the boss's niece, masquerading under a false name to learn the business. Climax is a ridiculous world speed trial on Muroc Dry Lake in which love and the carburetor win out. Adequate acting by James Stewart and Wendy Barrie give Speed its only tinge of interest...
...hissing, they are revered by radicals the world over. Marx, the Holy Ghost of the Soviet Trinity, author of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, is now a familiar spook even to men-in-the-street, but few newspaper readers have ever encountered the shade of Engels. Until Gustav Mayer's German life of Engels was last week translated into English, there was no biography of him available to U. S. readers...
Contemptuous of marriage, he took his mistresses from the British proletariat, but married the second on her deathbed, just to please her. He knew he was second fiddle to Marx. and. according to Biographer Mayer, was quite content...