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...Burns, bazookist, was sued for $32,738 by Paramount for not going to work in a movie called Joan of Arkansas. Arkansan Burns dubbed the script "disgusting," commented: "All they know at the studio about Arkansas is what they see in the cartoons of a magazine that sells for 50? and whose name I can't seem to recall...
Hemmed in by reporters and photographers, John P. Marquand '15, yesterday presented the motion picture script of his best-selling novel, "H. M. Pulham, Esq." to the Widener Library Theatre Collection. The presentation was part of a publicity scheme intended to boost ticket sales of the M.G.M. picture, which opens in Boston tonight...
...said that although the picture has "several sad deficiencies," it is, on the whole, "a good job with some excellent parts. Anything wrong in the script you can't blame on me. The good lines are mine...
Musicianly Josef Marais controls the timing and tone of his broadcast with the grace of a ballet master. A pleasant script takes him, two boon companions and a Hottentot boy on various African adventures that provide easy openings for such love songs as Here Am I, unique in its treatment of the adamantine mother theme, or such tender Boer campfire songs as Brandy, Leave Me Alone...
...veteran playboys battle suavely over fair Irene, who has married the former yet retains "unfinished business" with the latter; but all too rarely do any of the trio manage to rise above the trite monotony of the script. And it is not without pain that we, report that--despite some beautiful scenic backgrounds which are the only saving grace of the film--Miss Dunne can no longer sing...