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...becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds...
Most effective nude was The Vase and the Maid by Royal Photographer Fred P. Peel in which the body of a standing model is cut by a strange T-shaped arrangement of black velvet. Most banal photograph was A Pleasant Road by Mrs. Rowena Brownell of Providence...
Candidate for the most banal picture was a meat-calendarish illustration of Putnam Called From the Plow by John Ward Dunsmore, A. N. A. Slickest portrait was a huge, brittle canvas by Paul Trebilcock of the much publicized Morgan sisters, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Among the best pictures passed over by the prize committee were Taxes, a desolate study of an abandoned farm by the former PWAP head Edward Bruce, and Jes Schlaikjer's The Cooling Well, a woman and child bending over a well head on a South Dakota farm on a hot summer evening...
...ballots and asked to vote for their favorite among the 356 paintings exhibited. With a total of 1,920 votes, more than twice as many as its nearest competitor, the people's choice was Tropic Seas, by Frederick J. Waugh. Depicted in a solid, workmanlike way was a thoroughly banal study of green seas, white foam and brown rocks?a scene such as embellished the parlors of the country's leading hotels in the days when their elevators had ropes to start them...
Although it lacks the high-powered sentiment that made Little Women one of the box-office hits of 1933, Anne of Green Gables would probably have been able to impress itself on the public without the aid of banal publicity tricks like the one whereby Dawn O'Day, the obscure actress who plays the lead, got a Los Angeles court to change her name to that of the heroine in the picture because "Anne Shirley has always been my favorite fiction character...