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Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City. Here is a film without plot, without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open...
WELCOME HOME-Alice Duer Miller-Dodd Mead ($2). To compete with the fictional vogue for neuroses, stream-of-thought, documentary realism, Alice Duer Miller has done two novelettes, each with an actual plot: introduction, climax, denouement, elements as gratifying as they are oldfashioned...
...brilliantly acted by three members of the cast-Harold Johnsrud, Jules Artfeld and Antoinette Crawford-the icy despair of The Waltz of the Dogs is indeed produced according to the author's recipe. Its somewhat antiquated use of soliloquy and its droning tragedy, unencumbered by contemporary fashions in plot construction, make it a sour entertainment for play-goers drilled in a less difficult tradition. Its sadness is serious and harsh and not the relaxative kind old women...
...trial proceeded, the Prosecution was seriously embarrassed, last week, when two of its chief witnesses were mysteriously shot dead near their homes. Commented Bad-Man Badchis, innocently, "All this is the result of a plot by my enemies...
...Breaks. There is always a breath of country air in the production of J. C. (Father) and Elliott (Son) Nugent. They write their plays, one would suppose, while sitting on the front porch, and then read the script to the neighbors. Although the plot of their latest contribution hangs upon a surgical operation which is highly sophisticated if scientifically vague, the play retains a rural placidity. Perhaps this is because Father Nugent, a portly but very mildly sinister figure, acts his leading role...