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...whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled on one of them by his own spear. Notable is the picture's end. Off-screen Chaliapin sings morosely, while the camera catches pattern after pattern in the twisting, writhing pages of his burning books. Here Is My Heart (Paramount). Cinemaddicts who remember that brilliant picture, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, in which Adolphe Menjou performed...
...year ago, the offspring of her parents' neighbors. Careful of their daughter's dignity, the Temples insist that at all benefit shows she must have "top billing." This does not indicate that Shirley Temple has acquired stage conceit; she does not applaud her own picture on the screen. She still believes in Santa Claus. Apparently unaware that if she needs toys she can well afford to buy them, she spent last week scribbling requests for an electric train with lots of tracks, a tub for washing dolls' clothes...
This week's feature attraction is the screen adaptation of last year's musical comedy success "Music in the Air." The music and lyrics by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein have been retained and are the redeeming feature of an otherwise dull and tiresome operetta adaptation...
...entire program is a musical one. There is another short musical resinne on the screen which apparently has been revived from the Stygian depths where it should have been left to repose...
...been ordered for all U. S. dioceses. Typical was the pastoral issued by New York's archbishop, Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Graciously acknowledging the support given by non-Catholics, this silver-haired Prince wrote: "Admonish the faithful that it is a matter of experience that the public presentation on the screen of scenes of shame and crime insidiously dulls the sensitive edge of right conscience. Absolutely false standards of moral conduct, at first disapproved, soon tolerated, and finally accepted, result from the erroneous notion that the fundamental moral laws of right and wrong could possibly change to meet the laxity...