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...Silver Horde (RKO). They are still making films out of Rex Beach's stories. This one, like the rest, is complicated, violent, highly naive: the nobility of the hero is 100% and so is the villainy of the villains. The theme of the picture is the struggle of opposing interests for control of the Yukon salmon fisheries. It contains a few great sequences: the beautiful silver hordes of fish whirling down the river and lifted, struggling, into the fishing boats out of the heavy nets...
...object stands out in three dimensions. Inventor Spoor has obtained a like effect by using a camera with two lenses which record impressions on film through a single aperture. The illusion of depth is obtained not because the images are different but because they are recorded in "stagger" formation. RKO has rights to make one picture this way. It will be a railroad film with Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur. It will be presented at the State-Lake Theatre in Chicago in two or three weeks...
Lawful Larceny (RKO). Lowell Sherman directs and takes a lead role in Samuel Shipman's old drama of a wife's revenge. It is a problem play, the problem being whether a wife commits a crime when she goes to another woman's home, where her husband has been gambling away his substance, and brings his affec- tion and property home again. Full of theatrical cliches, Lawful Larceny is enlivened by the verbal improvisations and expansive mannerisms of Actor Lowell Sherman and by the skill of Director Lowell Sherman in giving Actor Sherman due opportunities. In spite...
...years. They were famed as the leading blackface 'pair in the U. S. long before the rise of Freeman F. Gosden (Amos) and Charles J. Correll (Andy), who two years ago earned $100 a week and who this year received a guarantee of $350,000 for their forthcoming RKO picture, Check and Double Check. Although the Moran & Mack badinage lacked continuity, some critics still think that Moran & Mack were much funnier than Amos 'n Andy. Last December Moran broke up the team. He said Mack was paying him only $200 a week with a $50 bonus...
...Inventor Theodore Nakken, president of Nakken Corp., discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last week Warner Brothers-following their policy of pioneering with picture patents-bought 50% of Nakken Corp. stock thus acquiring the use, free from royalty, of all Nakken Patents. If the courts grant Nakken Corp. its patent...