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...supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after feebly attempting to commit first robbery and then suicide, visiting Heaven before he comes back to Earth...
...being too "Buy American" it's safe to say that there aren't many more beautiful mountains in the world than the towering Sierras of California with their massive redwoods and gaunt peaks of stupendous height. The eye-appeal of this picture is such as has rarely graced the screen and the thrilling drama in the lives of the mountain animals is portrayed with sincere dramatic power...
Coming out to Cambridge to watch a performance of the play which she has been considering as a vehicle for herself, Ina Claire, stage and screen star, was the guest of honor at the Dramatic Club's dress rehearsal last night for "Sarah Simple," the A. A. Milne comedy which will have its American premiere this evening in Brattle Hall...
...just that possibility of chaos which Herr Hitler had in mind and that motivated the present action in the last analysis. It was a smoke-screen whose effect was primarily for home consumption and, whichever way dispersed on the resulting gale was calculated to enhance the Fuehrer's prestige at home. That it has enveloped him in a mantle of masterful heroism rather than a martyr's shroud for the German people, is simply so much grist to his mill. His position, which the events of the past year, such as the murderous party purge at Munich and elsewhere, indicated...
...same bill with this delightful pastoral, a "Shadow of Doubt" crosses the screen. This is a murder mystery which carries Ricardo Cortez and Virginia Bruce through many a night club, until at last the web is unfangled by an astonishingly brusque and perspicacious maiden aunt. If you should have difficulty in selecting the culprit, look for the Yale man, two years...