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West of the Pecos (RKO...
...Little Minister (RKO). That quality, usually defined as whimsey, which admirers of Sir James M. Barrie find so charming in his prose, is impossible to reproduce upon the screen. For this reason The Little Minister lacks some of the effect of the novel from which it was derived. It attempts, therefore, to substitute charms of its own. Because of the delicacy with which Director Richard Wallace handled the story, and the peculiar grace of Katharine Hepburn in the role that Maude Adams created in 1897, the substitution is entirely satisfactory...
...have The March of Time at RKO Orpheum here...
...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...
...impersonation of Jeeter. After he had played 30 weeks in the part, Universal snatched him off to Hollywood. Then James Barton, a song-&-dance man making his first legitimate appearance, took over the rôle (TIME, July 2). After 22 weeks, Hollywood bagged him too, with a contract from RKO. On the night of its 437th performance James Bell (The Last Mile) last week stepped into the lead of a play that. by now, has become a national institution...