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...recent years. In her love scenes she is hungrily abetted by Stanio Braggiotti, who does his best with the colorless Raoul. The Nazi officers, particularly John Wengraf and Tonio Selwart, are excellent and do their best to maintain the high degree of bestiality that is the stage and screen trademark of the Dirty...
...finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives a performance equal to the achievements of Walter Brennan on the screen in his role of the dean who for forty years played appeaser to the stadium-building alumni. Only Betty Kelley as the emotional wife falls short of the generally high standard of the production. Billed as having previous experience on the Lone Ranger program and as a professional model...
...Physical Culture is edited by unobtrusive, 36-year-old Ernest V. Heyn, crack movie-magazine editor (Modern Screen, et al.), who went to Macfadden's Photoplay in 1937, last year merged it with Movie Mirror to make it top movie magazine (circ. : 800,000). It stresses health as the foundation of female beauty. With a print order of 275,000, alleged newsstand returns of the new Physical Culture indicated sales double those of the old muscle magazine...
Then the next day there came a new test, and it was at this point that the Yale man rose to heights of glory. The enlisted men used a few smoke bombs to raise a screen and then the battalion was told to "charge" through it without masks on. The idea was that someone had mixed a few tear bombs with the smoke bombs and the officers wanted to see how long it would be before the cadets would catch on and throw on their masks. The trial was 99 per cent a success. The one per cent...
What "Native Son" lacks most is unity. Substituting a large number of short scenes for the conventional three-act division may be novel, but it gives about the same impression as our Hero jerking across the screen in a 1910 movie. Even Canada Lee's powerful interpretation of Bigger Thomas, the Negro murderer about whose guilt the play tries to center, fails to draw it together. The authors may even have realized this, when they wrote the message that the play itself should have got across, into an over-emotional and over-long speech by the defendant's attorney...