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Following with naive exactitude the plot of Marlene Dietrich's "Dishonored", "Mata Hari" tells the story of the fascinating secret agent of the Central Powers who is employed to extract priceless secrets from allied officers but eventually sacrifices honor and country for love. Afterwards comes the scene in the sombre prison. As in "Dishonored", the heroine in one sequence seats herself at the piano, plays stirring tunes while her lover watches. Ramon Navarro is the young officer who falls victim...
...Countess Bethlen is the Countess Bethlen, a law unto her smart, svelte self. She exchanges plot ideas with Statesman-playwright Benito Mussolini. When her plays are produced in Italy he goes to them, claps his hands, wires congratulations. Obviously the Countess Bethlen was earning the foreign money she spent last week by lecturing as she traveled. But amid money hysteria in Central Europe few heads were clear. To Hungarian Socialists the lecturing countess seemed a creature without shame, unpatriotic, diabolic...
...sincere and thoughtful if somewhat superficial sermon on the sanctity of marriage and the insignificance of escapade. Typical shot: Juliette Compton saying "Don't let me die!" to Clive Brook just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before...
...well known types of cinema entertainment: aeronautical spectacle (like Hell's Angels, Dirigible) and man-to-man comedy (like What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive at a target (shown three times); a plane landing on the deck of the U. S. S. Saratoga as seen...
...McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet-dancing Harry Dunham of last year's show?much to the relief of those graduates who were beginning to wonder if Princeton's female impersonators were not getting too good. The somewhat garbled plot of Spanish Blades is extracted from Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Don Quixote...