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...experiment was first announced January 26, 1935, so that its first applications will not be overmuch of a shock to the class of 1937 and 1938. They have been warned...
...Fine Arts we find "Cloistered," a cinematic invasion of a convent which hails itself as offering the first "intimate scenes and unposed glimpses of life in a convent." It has a great deal of tranquillity, but not overmuch dramatic significances. At the other end of the line we find the Park Theatre, fromerly of Mineky's chain, presenting the much whispered about Czechoslovakian film "Ecstasy." The Park bills it for Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times...
Only the most minor liberties with historical truth are taken and these only when demanded by the exigencies of the theatre. This devotion to accuracy, however laudable, tends to produce a play which allows its narrative overmuch attention with a consequent vitiation of dramatic vitality. The core of the drama is inevitably the love story of Parnell and Kate O'Shea and this central theme might bear a more profound treatment than Mrs. Shauffier has accorded it. Nonetheless, the story has such merits of its own that mere dramatization suffices to make it an absorbing theatrical experience...
...square miles of the country's best timberland supporting 94 Weyerhaeuser-operated or affiliated corporations which gross $20,000,000 a year. The fact that the Weyerhaeusers and associates have lost up to five million dollars a year for the past decade has not worried them overmuch...
...French countryside. The magnificent photography is in fact the film's chief virtue, for though the acting is capable and scenario well crystallized from the lengthy plot of the novel the picture is considerably protracted and it fails to maintain the serious aspects of the theme as it concentrates overmuch on satirizing the bourgeois mores of the unfortunate Madame Bovary. The comedy effects are good and the general effect is amusing, but its failure to bring out the fundamental problem which faces the heroine renders it unfortunately inconsequential. Flaubert's treatment of this theme, the struggle of a bourgeois matron...