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...Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother Rat because it was a play...
...Awful Truth (Columbia). Resourceful, humorous Director Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap, The Milky Way, Make Way For Tomorrow) takes a couple of derby hats, an ingratiating wire-haired fox terrier and three players without any special reputations as comedians, and spins a brightly-written Vina Delmar script into the gayest screen comedy the season has seen. In the process he establishes Irene Dunne as one of the top comediennes of current cinema, keeps Columbia's reputation for mature comedy (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Theodora Goes Wild) at its brightest. He also...
...newcomer to cinema. Censorship deleted her best scene, which shows her successfully fighting the urge to join the girl of her desire. Considered fit for Manhattan cinemagoers was the shot in which she poisons the procuress-telephone operator. Playwright-Director Deval was in Manhattan last week with the script of a new play, Soubrette, seeking a producer and planning on Actress-Wife Argall for the lead...
...plays reach Broadway it is usually through the blind openhandedness of some gullible angel, but this one had the Hollywood backing of the astute Warner Brothers, was one more indication of Hollywood's renewed interest in the Broadway stage as a source, albeit an inconsistent one, of script material...
...bayonet technique were amusing to the audience when in reality they were far more horrible in their subtlety than the more obvious scenes of death and destruction which make audiences shudder. Miss George is almost over-sincere and shows her age, Mr. Tracy does as well as the script allows him, and though his portrayal seems a bit of a patch-work, it is not his fault. Furthermore, the film falls a little flat in its climax...