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...heroine, he said: ". . . She combines mysticism and sex with the pure and wholesome. There is the depth of the ages in her eyes, today in her body and tomorrow in her spirit." As is his custom, Director De Mille took his scenarists on a yachting party to prepare the script; used a megaphone, now almost obsolete in Hollywood, to harangue his extras whom he gets not from the studio casting office but from a list...
...pounds. This was not the only mishap in connection with Rockabye. A version of it made last summer with Phillips Holmes in Joel McCrea's role was so unsuccessful that RKO did the whole thing over again, with Jane Murfin & Kubec Glasmon to rewrite Horace Jackson's script and George Cukor directing instead of George Fitzmaurice. It emerges finally as a first-grade program picture, lachrymose but reasonable, brightened by Jobyna Howland's expert characterization of Judy's tippling mother. Instructive shot : Jobyna Howland struggling vaguely to stand up while drunk...
...this autumn, in accordance with the mode, would do well to go and see the decorations which Robert Edmond Jones has provided for Camille. Producer Delos Chappell & wife, who first presented the revival at Central City, Colo. this summer (TIME, Aug. 1), have arranged their own translation of the script without, apparently, distinguishing it from previous translations. After four weeks in Manhattan, Camille, Miss Gish and the scenery will take to the road...
...essentially unchanged. The vaudevillains fail in their endeavor but one of them is rewarded, for unprecedented impertinence to his employer, by being put in complete charge of all Glogauer productions. He (Jack Oakie) distinguishes himself by making a picture, which turns out to be a hit, from the wrong script; by buying 2,000 airplanes so that he can get one free. If Once in a Lifetime is less funny because less angry than it was upon the stage, it is just as appropriately cast. Aline MacMahon, in the rôle which got her a Hollywood contract two years...
...Phantom of Crestwood (RKO). Before this mystery picture was released last fortnight, it was exploited in an ingenious way. Once a week for six weeks National Broadcasting Company (like RKO a subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America) broadcast chapters worked up from the scenario of the picture. The radio script did not reveal the solution to the mystery; radio listeners were invited to suggest conclusions for the story, for $6,000 in prizes. The prize contest disguised the real purpose of the broadcast: to create such suspense among the radio audience that all would rush to see the cinema. Advertisements...