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Born to Love (RKO Pathe). In this one Constance Bennett suffers, loves, and suffers. In an emotional moment during the War she has a love affair with a U. S. captain. When she meets and marries a handsome English toff he passes the captain's baby off as his own, retaining custody of it after they are divorced. Miss Bennett suffers in marriage with him, suffers when separated from her child, suffers when she must live in poverty and not even see her old sweetheart for fear Sir Wilfred Drake (Paul Cavanaugh) will hear of it and continue...
Beyond Victory (RKO Pathé). The spirit of a masterpiece can be reflected more easily than its technique and it is the spirit of All Quiet on the Western Front that animates this little war story. Three years ago war would have been glorified in such a piece of cinema trade-goods as this, even if it were glorified only as a background for heroic actions; now war is presented simply to be pilloried. The framework-four men assigned to hold the enemy in a beleaguered post while the main body of troops retires-has possibilities. Each man, faced with...
Laugh and Get Rich (RKO). Small-town boarding houses are still a pre-eminent locale for a certain kind of unpretentious comedy, usually built around the lady who runs the boarding house, her loafer husband, her pretty daughter, the star and other boarders. In Laugh and Get Rich, written by Douglas MacLean who four years ago was a famed comedian, the star boarder is a swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor...
Percy Furber is president of Trans-Lux Daylight Picture Screen Corp. which owns 40% of the stock in Trans-Lux Movies Corp. Fifty per cent more of the stock is owned by RKO, the rest by the president of Trans-Lux Movies, Courtland Smith, on whose first theatre the new word made its appearance last week in large violet letters. This theatre, about (he size of a small drugstore, has 158 comfortable arm-seats, a turnstile in front and a svelte modernistic interior in which newsreels now flicker from 10 a. m. till midnight. There are no ushers; a ticket...
...America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum. In June it was announced that the great project would go forward, not as an opera but as a radio centre, something to serve not only New York but the entire U. S. Here would be the offices and broadcasting studios of NBC, RCA, RKO; a huge vaudeville theatre, a huge picture theatre, additional buildings for banks, shops, restaurants, offices. At John Reynard Todd's suggestion, three firms of architects were appointed to work with him: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux...