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...Twenty-Mule Team" is a pretty Beery diet for those who do not appreciate the beauties of an unwashed, unshaven unbrushed movie actor. But as a type actor, Wallace Beery is unsurpassed in his field, and his absence from the screen has been a loss which can only he repaired with bigger and better Beerier movies. In any case, "Twenty-Mule Team" will do until a better vehicle comes along...
With the help of Darryl Zanuck's millions and Louis Bromfield's doubtful dramatic talent another grand American screen epic has been born. "Brigham Young--Frontiersman" deals with the Mormon migration to Utah, with hatred and persecution in the good old days. The story is told with much sympathy and technical skill, but bogs down and struggles forward as painfully as the pioneers themselves...
Drop a dime in a Soundies (the word apparently has no singular form) and you see a three-minute film, with musical accompaniment, projected on the box's 24-by-18-inch plastic screen. The $695 box is designed to hold 1,000 ft. of 16-mm. film, made for Mills by James Roosevelt's Globe Productions in Hollywood. There is no direct corporate connection between Mills and Globe. But the film will be leased to box owners, at $17.50 per reel for the first week, less later, by a projected Soundies Distributing Corp. of America...
Late in 1937, Broadway Producer Jed Harris hired Martha to play Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Two years later she was hired for the screen version of Our Town, moved directly from that to The Howards, ended up earning $500 a week. Martha once occupied a small Manhattan apartment with four other girls who selected their guests according to "the length of cigaret butts they would leave." She now lives in a small house with a pint-sized swimming pool in Beverly Hills, employs a man & wife to run her household, drives her Buick convertible coupe herself...
...since talking pictures arrived. Not until early this year, when veteran, British-born Director Frank Lloyd began shooting The Howards at Williamsburg, did any major director train his camera on the Founding Fathers. In The Howards of Virginia Director Lloyd presents their era in an able, slow-moving, sincere screen translation of Elizabeth Page's novel, The Tree of Liberty...