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...Grant-Huemer script, which had the germ of every important episode of the final screen version, gave Dumbo a voice, but it was quickly evident that the way to insure the taupe-colored little elephant's appeal was to keep him mute. He is, except for a few burps after he has inadvertently imbibed champagne and an occasional infantile...
Jacala persuaded 20 fellow tribesmen to return to Darwin. For 40 days they traveled, came at last to the movie theater with the neon sign, paid and entered. On a shiny screen, a white man was hugging and kissing a white woman. Jacala & friends disgusted, stalked out, walked 40 days home again...
Darwin natives, constant moviegoers, could have told them of the standard native device for dealing with such pictures: natives obliterate kissing scenes by flashing electric torches at the screen...
...Faced Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a practically perfect example of how wrong Hollywood can be when it gets off the beam. A slapsticky remake of a 1925 farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...
...Brothers Warner were even braver. Disdaining Hollywood's horror of controversial issue (pro& anti-Custerites are among the most vigorously vocal of U.S. cultists), they sailed into the screen's first full-length exposition of the Custer legend with all canvas flying. Their version, which whitewashes Custer and bypasses history, is not likely to please either side...