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Tonight or Never (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). Critics who feel that the cinema should be an independent medium are discouraged because an overwhelming majority of the best talkies are reproductions of successful plays or novels. Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly...
...audience is sure that he is not. In what corresponds to the last act of the play-when the opera singer has given an inspired rendition of Tosca, dismissed a boring fiance-she discovers that her gigolo is an American impresario, traveling incognito with his good-humored aunt (Alison Skipworth...
Engaged. Peter ("Pan") Llewellyn Davies, British publisher, nephew of Actor Sir Gerald Du Maurier; and Hon. Margaret Hore-Ruthven, onetime mannequin and dancer with her beauteous twin sister, Hon. Alison Mary. Publisher Davies, orphaned in youth with his four brothers, became a ward of Sir James Matthew Barrie, was the inspiration of Peter...
Said Publisher Farrar: "It's a new kind of censorship to me." His two children, John Jr., 4½, and Alison, 2½, he admitted, kneel each night and say "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...
...Susan Glaspell, $1,000 for the best American play: Alison's House...