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Madam Satan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is the most interesting picture of the week because it revives a tradition that was once very important to the business...
When Elias Mayer, 52, of Chicago announced recently that he was going to retire from business, he gave as his reason his desire to die with his slippers on?not his shoes. In good health, he retired primarily to have some fun. But he also may have had in mind the realization that his business, General American Tank Car Corp., is a youngman affair. Certainly the Board of Directors were of such a mind, for last week they chose as Mr. Mayer's successor in the presidency, Lester North Selig, slight, boyish-looking...
...went to Chicago, started to work riveting under-frames of tank cars. After factory experience, he was transferred through the departments ? purchasing, operation, ac counting ? to learn the business thoroughly. In 1920 he was made assistant to Mr. Epstein, who, upon the ascendancy of Mr. Mayer to the presidency three years ago, became board chairman and has since spent most of his time with philanthropies and art (TIME...
...Call of the Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A few years ago this kind of story was handled in pictures with a mawkish solemnity that made it unbearable. It is built around a laugh-clown-laugh sequence in which a young Spanish singer, his heart broken when his sweetheart is taken away from him, outdoes himself as Canio in Pagliacci. Yet so skillful are detail, dialog, direction that the spectator is never concerned with the values of the plot as realism. Modern sound technique has transformed the old romantic design into a highly successful and credible operetta. Novarro sings Spanish folk...
Romance (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer). Here is Greta Garbo postured superbly against the brownstone elegance of Manhattan 30 years ago-Garbo in Watteau hats and waisted dresses which perfectly become both her figure and the gracefully nostalgic story of a forfeited love. It is Edward Sheldon's old play in which Doris Keane starred for so long on the stage, an adaptation arranged in flashbacks, directed by Clarence Brown, with Lewis Stone as the middle-aged lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial...