Word: bainter
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...Tartar rebellion led by Scarface Ogareff (Akim Tamiroff). Courier Michael Strogoff (Anton Walbrook) is spotted by Ogareff spies as he leaves St. Petersburg. Highlight of his journey is the day he spends at his home town of Omsk where he is taken prisoner and where his mother (Fay Bainter) and a girl (Elizabeth Allan), whom he has gallantly been escorting along the way, are present when Ogareff has his eyes roasted. The roasting produces no bad effects because Ogareff's mistress (Margot Grahame), who has fallen in love with the courier while shadowing him, bribes the executioner...
...Woodrow Wilson was an ardent theatregoer. Franklin Roosevelt prefers to have movies in the White House, but one evening last week he dressed up and went out to see Walter Huston and Fay Bainter in Dodsworth. It was his second visit to the theatre since March...
...DODSWORTH--Last season's most ambitions dramatic success continues after a brief summer rest period. Will continue as a "best" for a long time, although it will never equal many of the record runs scored on theater row. Again headlines Walter Huston, Fay Bainter, Harlan Briggs...
While the desperate father is on the verge of committing suicide, the other members of the family go about their varied affairs unheeding his distress. Fay Bainter, as the mother, is particularly good. Her acting leaves little to be desired, save perhaps by those who would rather watch homely emotions play over a more beautiful countenance. Her particular preoccupation is going to Hollywood to direct the picture which a book she had written, had inspired...
...dramatic impact is cerebral rather than physical. Some of Designer Jo Mielziner's eight crafty settings are repeated to mount 14 scenes on shipboard, in Zenith, Paris, Berlin, Naples, London, Switzerland. Occasional lack of restraint in the direction is well covered by the acting of Fay Bainter and Walter...