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...Wisconsin's senior Senator, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee closed its investigation of Chicago's Memorial Day massacre last week in a tingling series of hearings. For nearly a month Senator La Follette had been building for this climax. All through the week a big screen and projection machine reminded audiences in the Senate Caucus Room that the finale was to be the suppressed Paramount newsreel of the riot outside the Republic Steel plant which cost the lives of ten men (TIME, June...
Ever Since Eve (Warner). "Marion Davies, the screen's supreme comedienne, has found her gayest vehicle in Ever Since Eve, which provoked spontaneous applause in the sedate Radio City Music Hall yesterday...
...William Randolph Hearst's New York Mirror the day after the picture's Manhattan premiere last week, was written by the Mirror's able cinema critic, Bland Johaneson. Since Hearst readers have long been accustomed to such eulogies of Cinemactress Davies' efforts on the screen, the fact that Ever Since Eve, far from being a high spot in the season's light fun, was actually a new low in its star's uneven career did not constitute news. What did constitute news about the picture-which distressingly exhibits Miss Davies as a stenographer...
...screen or on the printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
...mixing fury and farce Director Whale imperils Author Remarque's poignant theme, but the screen play possesses intense, impressive street scenes. And for a few moments The Road Back illumines a grim War-wrecked civilization, lighting up in a final flash the reawakening of German military mania...