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...director of "The Ten Commandments" succeeds pretty well in keeping in the background the revolution, and concentrates his plot upon the three main characters a prince, a princess, and a boatman. For once there are no gold bathtubs, and panorama effects give way to close-ups as the emotions of the three principles are pictured...
...Giara, "choreographic comedy" in one act, by Alfredo Casella; scenario based on a plot by Luigi Pirandello, famed Italian playwright...
...Night Cry. There has never yet been a dog film that had a sensible plot. This one is the usual string of improbabilities pieced together to give Rin-Tin-Tin a chance. He, as a sheep dog, is accused of murdering baby lambs. Out of this cruel situation he extricates himself satisfactorily and (if you like Rin-Tin-Tin) entertainingly...
...independence. Instead of football games, the undergraduates spend their spare time fighting the revolutionary war on our own campus. You feel that if you wandered very far from the Yard, you would begin to hear the booming of British guns. Wonder of wonders, there is a very real plot, involving a spy, and a beautiful woman suspected of being a spy, and an undergraduate who has fall-on in love with an actress (proving that this is an old story after all.) At times, your correspondent was actually ready to throw eggs at the wicked villian. Captain Higbee...
...chief trouble with "The Rotters" is, as I have tried to intimate, that it is absolutely innocent of plot, and that the words put in the mouths of the actors are too flat to make up for the commonplaces of the action. Everything happens according to the good, old, established school of countless colorless comedies, and the spectator is tempted to whisper "I told you so," at every well-known incident. If ever there was a man who likes to get back to the root of things, Mr. Maltby has shown himself to be such when looked upon...