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Mayerling to Sarajevo (Leo Films) is 8,100 feet of celluloid whose recent peregrinations have been as exciting as any it could possibly put on the screen. Completed in February 1940, it lay idle in studio vaults, then opened in Brussels three weeks before the Nazis appeared. They quickly burned all prints but one because of its sympathetic treatment of the Habsburgs. In mid-May it began a Paris run, lasted until the Nazi occupation 26 days later when again the prints were burned. The one unburned Brussels print was smuggled to England, flown to Canada and fashionably released last...
...painting. Most $5 customers buy reproductions. Many an artist would like to develop a cheap medium that would be as popular as reproductions. For the past five years, Artist Anthony Velonis has been at work in Manhattan on such a project. Its name: serigraphy, or, less flossily, silk-screen printing. Since last spring several U. S. museums have put silk-screen prints on view. Last week Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries opened the best show...
Elmer is here again. In case you haven't been following Ring Lardner's epic of baseball's biggest swell-head. Elmer, whether on screen or stage, has for years and years been Joe E. Brown. For those interested in statistics, his mouth has stretched exactly one-eighth of an inch, which only makes his smile the more enticing and allows him to shovel down ham, doughnuts, milk and pie in an increasing ratio throughout the play. Between these two processes, Joe E. is as human, lovable and Laughable as ever...
Angels Over Broadway (Columbia). In spite of the fabulous salary he draws as a screen writer (some $6,000 weekly) balding Ben Hecht spends many of his expensive words on acid comments about Hollywood moviemakers. Possibly as protest, he and his sidekick, Playwright Charles MacArthur, took four flings at independent movie production, scored one bull's-eye with The Scoundrel, eventually quit. This year, Columbia gave Hecht $260,000 worth of Hollywood backing with which he wrote, produced, directed Angels Over Broadway, another of his preoccupations with the regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow...
...Earnest and honest in his work, he is a dissenter from the old director's trick of stamping films with a personal emblem like the Lubitsch "touch." The quick Kanin success has been based on the un-Hollywood device of taking the performers' personalities out of a screen play, centering the emphasis on the development of the author's characters...