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Norma Shearer in her latest opus now playing at the University adds another quite substantial rung to her ladder of success. Her acting and other natural endowments add considerable to a plot that is slightly drab to speak mildly. What is more, she is one of the few women who is able to wear a hat as if it were an ornament rather than a necessary excrescence, and the remainder of her attire is correspondingly satisfactory. The major point is, however, that she plays her part as if she were an actress and not a model...
...plot is one of sophisticated, talkie, married life with the usual innuendoes of too many cocktails before dinner and infidelity. In spite of this apparent handicap, Professor Hays seems to have been cajoled into allowing this picture to be shown in an intelligible state. Rare as the case may be, the result is a sort of problem drama with as little of the usual attending motion picture sugar coating that could be hoped for. Good acting, good directing and a good script by pure geometrical reason go together to make a good picture...
...shrewd Vice President & General Manager Sam Morris told the delegates, they will buy "about 1,000 theatres." Added President Harry: "Wherever we cannot play our products, we will establish theatres of our own." Press announcements soon bore out these assertions: 1) Warner Brothers bought for $1,000,000 a plot in Dayton owned by Lee Warner James on which they will build a $2,500,000 theatre. 2) Warner Brothers were about to close a $2,500,000 deal giving them the Schine chain of 50 theatres in small Ohio cities, payment to be, according to the usual Warner policy...
...Manhattan's musty old Second Avenue Theatre last week was presented a Yiddish theatrical revival, The Wild Man. The plot deals with an aged and wealthy widower who marries a young adventuress. One by one his children are driven from or leave home until the neglected, crack-brained son murders his stepmother. But Jewish audiences, munching chocolates, were not as interested in the melodramatic antics of the family on the stage as they were in the family of Adlers -"the Barrymores of Jewry"-who were performing the piece. Gathered together for the first time on one stage, the cast...
...least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that he is at the bottom of a seething Moro rebellion, he will be promoted. Unfortunately his wife and the Spaniard, who proves to be innocent, fall in love and arrange...