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...accused Chancellor of the British Exchequer Winston S. Churchill of directing a secret band of assassins pledged to exterminate Soviet officials. Isvestia added, explanatorily: "London is a nest of murderers." Soviet War Minister Clemence Voroshilov declared: "The British maintain a band of murderers and brigands in our country." What banal and sordid crime provoked these flamboyant charges...
...film opened the new Manhattan playhouse of a serious-eyed little group who call themselves the Art Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...
Making rich men and poor men think alike was henceforth his great aim, which he pursued with a lively, pioneering use of the terms, "team work," "co-operation," "the other fellow's slant." Banal enough on other tongues, these terms apparently possessed charm when rolled forth with lively persistence by a member of the St. Andrews and Burns Societies. Unlike most go-betweens, Editor Forbes escaped being crushed; was instead raised on high by opposing pressures...
...Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic relief by the inevitable Jewish-Irish pair of privates, and painful insinuation that Sergeant Quirt's was a case of true love for the French ma'm'selle...
...gruous scenes follow one another in lightening-like procession. Before, Cecil B. DcMille backdrops, two caoruses heavies and half-points, vie with one another. The little girls dance remarkably, and twice on Monday night succeeded in stopping the show. They are perfectly instructed, and steps which would seem banal if performed in solo seem unbeatable when drummed out in chorus. Their larger sisters make up in voice for their lack of beauty. George Jean Nathan will never award any pretzels to these frauds for looks, but despite the New Yorkese twang to their voices they lend weight to the choruses...