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Slalom (H. R. Sokal, Vienna) is the first full-length skiing picture with a plot to be shown in the U. S. It takes its name from the skier's term for a downhill race around obstacles. Slalom's plot runs downhill all the way, is inconsequential except as a frame for the finest skiing and skiing photography the cinema has yet displayed...
...Take It With You (by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman; Sam H. Harris, producer) demonstrates that a pair of showmen who feel as much at home in the theatre as they do in bed can confect a magnificently funny show without bothering much about the plot. The plot of You Can't Take It With You is deliberately banal. Two young lovers are nearly parted because of their families, a dramatic situation which has not grown any younger since Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring...
Once in a great while a picture is photographed with breath-taking originality. Subordinating plot and characterization it unrolls before an untiring audience, which never coases to admire the ingenious technique, artistic angles, and gradations in color of black and white film. Such a picture is "The Ski Chase," featuring the excellent ski-ability of Hannes Schnoider. Laid in the spacious snow-doopened mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, this German production given an unusual and varied conception of the winter sport. We don't know a terrible lot about skiing, but the feats and perfection of the fifty or more...
...shadow of a plot helps to keep up the interest. The great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foos" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a made chase ensues, and it is this that fills the body of the picture. Much comedy is afforded by a dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...
...sweeping; the Country Club set should feel thoroughly chagrined. But then the affair wanders back into comedy pure and romantic in fact these often charming and often rather bewildering oscillations between comedy and comment set the tone of "Life's a Villain." In the long run it's the plot that counts. The author in making the play probably began with the simple incident of a poor girl falling off a dock at the lakeside home of a wealthy banker, and let himself be carried from there. In the course of his journey, he managed to produce an entertaining...