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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...
...hobble skirts, but the Herbert tunes endured. Radio took them up, made him the composer most played on the air. Last week his estate again proved itself to be a gold mine of melody. In Manhattan his daughter Ella Herbert Bartlett let it be known that she had sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the cinema rights to three of his operettas, The Red Mill, Rose of Algeria, Sweethearts. Price: $50,000 each...
...honor; the gun, 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...
...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...
Freddie Bartholomew, 11, George Arliss of child actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...