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...Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore a blond wig. doubled for Marion Davies), once in Tarzan of the Apes (doubling for Johnny Weissmuller) and in a slow-motion short, Swing High, soon to be released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Freaks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Director Tod Browning, one of the few truly individual directors in the U. S., is a specialist in horror. He is fond of anything that happens underground or in the dark, especially a murder. He prefers lovers who are physically deformed. He directed the late Lon Chaney in most of Chaney's best pictures. Before that he was a spieler for a sideshow, travelled twice around the world with a carnival in which he acted in blackface. Director Browning must have enjoyed making Freaks. It is one of the most macabre pictures ever filmed...
...Listening? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Although only the title of this picture is borrowed from Tony Wons's radio activities, Are You Listening? contains sufficient broadcasting hokum to mislead the uninitiated into believing that life in a studio is a combination of hangovers, sensational denouements and bleached blondes who arrive late for the dog biscuit hour. William Haines, a continuity writer of radio hogwash, has a private office, a secretary, an insufficient salary and a venomous wife who nags him whenever he comes home, which is seldom. For love he has turned to an artist in the studio (Madge Evans...
Tarzan, the Ape Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins in matter-of-fact fashion when a young English girl named Jane Parker (Maureen O'Sullivan) arrives at the cozy hut of her father, an African trader. She is a pleasant character and one not easily startled. Her most definite characteristic is a warm enthusiasm for maternity which makes her approve of 1) an African baby in a bag, 2) a hippopotababy waddling after its mother, 3) a small shaggy ape which seems to be an orphan. When she goes with her father's expedition to find the valley where the long...
...Parade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an honest and clever adaptation of Upton Sinclair's sloppy tract on Prohibition (TIME, Sept. 28). Without the radicalism of its original, it delineates the evils of drink and shows, without partiality Wet or Dry, that guzzling to excess brings misery. The heroine (Dorothy Jordan) is the daughter of a charming but besotted Southern gentleman (Lewis Stone). His suicide and the inherited alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets a youth...