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Night Flight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's system of casting all its available celebrities in the same production has the advantage of giving unpretentious stories a tantalizing air of grandeur. Night Flight is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's prize novel about the first night nights on a South American airmail route. Far from being an aviation "epic," it is really a study of an airmail port in operation at a crisis. The hero of the picture is not Jules Fabian (Clark Gable), whose plane is blown to sea by a cyclone, forced down...
...Solitaire Man," a screen drama adapted from the play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, directed by Jack Conway and presented by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer at the Loew's State Theatre with the following cast: Oliver Herbert Marshall Mrs. Hopkins Mary Boland Wallace Lionel Atwill Mrs. Vail May Robson Helen Elizabeth Allen Bascom Ralph Forbes Mrs. Peabody Lucille Gleason Mr. Peabody Robert McWade...
...National nonetheless had reason to be satisfied with its advertising trick. Captain Ayers, who saw the picture while waiting for claimants to appear, pronounced it authentic and ingenious, complimented Actor Stone, pointed out that his underlings, unlike Captain Webb's, are forbidden to chew gum. Penthouse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemaddicts who have never been there must have confused ideas about Manhattan. Lady for a Day exhibits the city as a paradise for addle-headed apple vendors. Bureau of Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse the New Yorkers...
Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...
...frame for juxtapositional drama of the type that came into fashion with Grand Hotel, a fashionable dinner party is ideal. As a frame for one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last winter was even better. The actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director...