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...intricacy of the plot, however, is not the main reason for the success of "Care Metropole", all honors go to Mr. Power and Miss Young. Making the most of an amusing script and excellent situations, the two turn in performances that will make picture goers look forward to another film with the same team in the near future. "Cafe Metropole" is entertainment fit for the consumption of a not too discriminating audience. Best shot -- Loretta "Smarty Pants" Young in pajamas...
...consent to her marriage. Up to this point, the plot of Kimiko somewhat resembles that of Universal's Three Smart Girls (TIME, Dec. 21). The end of the picture not only differs from its U. S. counterpart but offers a moral which in a U. S. script would strike the Hays organization dumb with horror. In the first place, Kimiko fails to negotiate the reconciliation. In the second, the reason for her failure is that the geisha proves to be a charming and gracious lady with whom her father finds life eminently satisfactory. Faced with this situation, Kimiko makes...
...Czechoslovakia's annual program of about 30 feature pictures at $30,000 each, decided to make another Golem. He hired Director Julien Duvivier (La Maternelle), Actor Harry Baur (Les Miserables), spent $200,000 building a medieval ghetto in his Prague studio, set to work with a French script...
...ended the career of the last authentic Star Reporter of national renown. Fifty-five when he died, Reporter Rogers had worked on the Post-Dispatch for 20 years, on other papers for 13 before that. If his exploits are made the basis for a melodramatic newspaper film, the script will require the addition of no synthetic excitement, for Reporter Rogers' professional life was as adventurous as they come...
Comedian. John Rorke, having eased his itch, was overwhelmed with a sense of having probably lost his B. B. C. job, and with remorse. Distractedly he said he had meant to shout "YES, MRS. GIBSON!" although that was also no part of the script. "It was a slip of the tongue," he moaned inconsolably. "I would not say anything out of place about any living being, my former King or a peasant...