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When interviewers lately sought out Mrs. Charles E. Williams in her modest apartment over a backyard garage in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., her first remark about her son, Assistant Federal Relief Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams, was: "He's a self-made...
...AUBREY STARKE Centralia...
...eight years, Warner's first experiment was a musical comedy (Happiness Ahead), in which her by no means untaxing assignment was to spend six reels listening to Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem piece, with mullioned windows and C. Aubrey Smith as a friend of the family, was obviously in order. This line of reasoning explains what would otherwise be the somewhat startling revival of Somerset Maugham's sardonic play The Sacred Flame, which has appeared twice in the cinema since its performance on the Manhattan stage...
...King, the business of impersonating heroes in his country's history is eminently sound. The only error made by George Arliss was in choosing two who performed on the same world stage about the same time. In The House of Rothschild (in which Wellington was impersonated by C. Aubrey Smith), Actor Arliss suggested to cinema audiences that Waterloo was a minor crisis in the affairs of a Jewish financier. In The Iron Duke, though Rothschild does not appear at all, Arliss' invariable mannerisms are so reminiscent that it seems strange when he orders his cavalry to charge instead...
Most audiences will spot the murderer easily, long before the Inspector (C. Aubrey Smith) breaks down a mendacious confession, obtains a truthful one, and benignly subscribes to the general idea that the killer was only a slightly foolish person who sought to escape a stuffy background...