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...Steel-Plot or Cold...
...much for pictorial excellence. There is also, as we have intimated, quite a promising plot. It has love and jealousy and suicide, (even a dance-though-your-heart-be-breaking sequence), but all on a rather simple scale. Or, to put it in a nutshell, we don't find the Balinese very stimulating mentally. Go expecting beautiful Bali girls and breathtaking photography and you will not be disapponted. That's quite a lot, after...
...Anna Karenina" at the University this week is certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more...
...Farmer Takes a Wife" is pleasantly quiet. It is essentially an idyllic love story concerning Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonds, but the triteness of plot is relieved by the varied minor characters and by its background, the Erie Canal in Pre-Civil War days. The conflict between railway and canal, the lure of western emigration, and the farmer's love of the land are all presented calmly but with force...
...Band" is fine, should one be a personal admirer of Buddy Rogers, his charm, acting ability--but need we rhapsodize further? Smoothie maestro Rogers has a hard time impressing band-mistress June Clyde with his obvious merits until he gets a black eye in her service. That's the plot. The interstices are filled by views of various orchestras, Rogers tooting on various instruments, and amateurish hip-wiggling by June Clyde. There is a fairly good tune called the "Valparaiso," and a passable Spanish dance team, which, however, are soon forgotten when the movie returns to its theme of snuggle...