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...singers of "Naughty Marietta" be it said that their voices in glory make this one of those "rare pictures which can be seen and enjoyed many times." For the story, there is a loyalty to the plot of the original play, but any plot is here unimportant, merely occupying the time between songs. For the flaws, if one is to be picked, it would probably find itself in the uneven character of Mr. Eddy's acting; other supporting roles are handled well if not brilliantly...
...Keys: War veterans sent to build the Keys highway, punch-drunk and turbulent, brawling in one of the bars; writers from the artists' colony amorously intriguing; rich yachtsmen, cabdrivers. These candidoes, written too deliberately from the "slice-of-life" point of view, too fortuitously presented in the plot, are not always so fortunate. But most readers will agree that Author Hemingway can rest well content with the knowledge that in Harry Morgan, hard, ruthless, implacable in his lonely struggle, he has created by far his most thoroughly consistent, deeply understandable character...
...Torrents of Spring (1926), a hasty burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's books, was written, so tradition has it, at the instigation of F. Scott Fitzgerald, to end Hemingway's relations with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Plot was that Liveright, annoyed at the ribbing of his star author, Sherwood Anderson, would refuse the manuscript, thus leaving Hemingway free to join Friend Fitzgerald at Scribners. At any rate, so it turned out. Scribners took the dud Torrents of Spring, thus securing a bestseller, The Sun Also Rises, as well as all Hemingway's subsequent books. From then on, Author...
...character of a handsome young page who acts as Marie's loyal escort, the author furnishes an eye-witness to scenes left out of histories. The page overhears the conversation in which Talleyrand double-crosses Napoleon with the emissaries of Russia and Austria. He and Marie uncover the plot to put Murat on the French throne; as courier to Napoleon in Spain, he sits in on long conversations between Napoleon and his intimates (partly taken from the Emperor's speeches in the Russian campaign, three years after the story's close...
Dealing with a rather complicated plot of jewel swiping and necklace swapping, the picture is none the less sufficiently clear for pleasure. Though a bit tedious at times, "Love Under Fire" is a strong backer to a strong forerunner. Orchids to the U. T., then, for a program of definite worth at a time when first rate entertainment seems a thing of the past...