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Perhaps it is not generally known that the book of the same name, written by Mr. Theodore Dreiser and purporting to furnish the plot for this cinema, was conceived from an actual murder case occurring on Big Moose Lake in the Central Adirondack section of New York State...
...whole, exciting, interesting, occasionally authentic. Subsidiary stories about humans surround the chronicle of Tommy Boy. His last owner, the gambler's mistress, is deeply attached both to Tommy Boy and to a young gambler who, regenerate in the last reel, informs her stable-hands of the plot which he has helped to formulate. Shots of Elmendorf, Joseph E. Widener's farm near Lexington, Ky.; the 1931 Derby at Churchill Downs; of Vice President Curtis (a onetime jockey) marching down the clubhouse steps; and the sounds of a radio announcer mingling the names of real Derby horses (Spanish Play...
...Sensitiveness outside of the field of the mental operation is a magnificent substratum ... on which to build a developed mind. Have you been engaged in that most important job of research . . . the discovery of what you are best fitted to do? If you fail to plot your course . . . one day you will be wrecked and cast ashore. If your gift lies in the field of sciences, have you learned enough about the fundamentals of mathematics and physics? . . . As one enlarges his capacity to make himself understood ... he opens up to that extent his opportunity for usefulness...
...been directed by William K. Howard, onetime Cincinnati theatre manager, law student, sales adviser for Universal, who may be among the ten best directors of next year (see above). The story, which borrows the flashy tricks of Vicki Baum's play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings...
...executives were giving their final approval to this gruesome but improving homily when, last week, in a Manhattan thoroughfare, erratic bullets from real gangsters' guns killed one and wounded four other urchins (see p. 14). Quick to evaluate a somewhat far fetched parallel between this tragedy and the plot of The Star Witness, Warner executives hurried the premiere of the picture, advertised it as "a weapon . . . to stamp out . . . gangsters and their illicit breed," devoted the proceeds of the first showing to the families of Manhattan's small victims...