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...last week's vernal jungle of rank theatrical growths, one amusing piece would pop up its head. That piece is The Milky Way. Burleigh Sullivan (Hugh O'Connell) was a weakly child-"a Sagittarius baby," he recalls-who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world's middleweight champion, and his trainer simultaneously swing on him, miss and knock each other out. Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion. To save Speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation of Don Quixote, Dillinger and Napoleon, wrhose more serious misdemeanors, like robbery, arson, lechery and wholesale slaughter of prisoners, are excusable on the grounds of good intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

Fine Arts--"Wiener Blut". Tuneful and pleasant German film dealing with Johann Strauss; numerous waltzes and adroit photography successfully recreate the Vionna of Francis Joseph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/21/1934 | See Source »

Fine Arts--"Wiener Bult". Tuneful and pleasant German film dealing with Johann Strauss; numerous waltzes and adroit photography successfully recreate the Vienna of Francis Joseph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Films | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

Fine Arts--"Wlener Blut". Tuneful and pleasant German film dealing with Johann Strauss; numerous waltzes and adroit photography successfully recreate the Vienna of Francis Joseph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/17/1934 | See Source »

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