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Vienna, Wednesday, Oct. 31--Balkan capitals seethed today with rumors of a plot against the life of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria but whether an attempt on the life of the Bulgar ruler really was made, newspaper correspondents, for the time, were unable to learn...
...patness of Lost Horizons' plot is impaired by the complicated temporal sequence of its 20 scenes, the over-intricate arrangement of the characters. But if Lost Horizons is not likely to be a satisfactory successor to The Green Pastures in Laurence Rivers' (Rowland Stebbins) series of supernatural moralities, it will not be any fault of its leading lady. Jane Wyatt contrives to spill none of its spiritual qualities while adding considerably to its physical appeal...
...would have been labeled a clown. An implausible rigmarole about old convicts, London swells, blacksmiths, eccentric old ladies, orphans with mysterious benefactors and gypsy servant girls, animated by coincidence and honeycombed with nonsense, its only similarity to a salable cinema narrative is a banal happy ending. Its main plot line, concerning the love of a young man, Pip, for an arrogant debutante, Estella, is confused by being intermittently subordinated to a mystery story...
Reduced to plot, there is little that is new to the cinema in the story of John and Maggie Shand. Nor can the picture's charm be ascribed to Scottish atmosphere, scrupulously maintained, from the unavoidable scene in which Maggie and John sing "Loch Lomond'' in the parlor to the MGM gesture of reproducing in every detail a real Scottish railway train for one brief sequence. Behind such externals lies the warm, human sympathy of an author whose works should eventually prove as popular in Hollywood as those of Charles Dickens are at present. Good shot: Dudley...
...plot moves slowly due probably to the difficulty of adapting two of Dostoevski's lesser-known novels into the one film. Egor Efimov is the gifted violinist who will not prostitute his talent to the bourgeois ideas of the patrons of the arts. Although he wins the fiancee of Schultz, his money-grabbing, plagiarizing fellow musician, he ends in poverty, while Schultz cavorts in the salons of Europe. But there is no doubt in the minds of the audience that Egor will find appreciation for his realistic compositions in the revolt of the workingmen. Fortunately there is only one shot...