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Cedric Webster Hardwicke, who played in George Bernard Shaw's The Applecart, in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, is now playing to jammed houses in The Late Christopher Bean, but who has never played in Manhattan: knighted...
...shrieked once (feminine), then went wild as a second shriek proclaimed a boy. Strangers solemnly congratulated each other in the streets, on tramcars, in trains, on ferry boats. Husbands and wives flung themselves into an embrace. Shining-faced little boys and girls were treated by beaming shopkeepers to delicious bean-sugar cakes. Meanwhile-the Sword! A precious blade, short and strong, forged by the Imperial Swordsmith, Sadakatsu Gassan, it was presented to the newborn Crown Prince, not by his father direct-for the Emperor of Japan acts always through intermediaries-but by proud old Admiral Kantaro Suzuki as the Emperor...
Christopher Bean (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). At the house of a placid, kindly New England physician there arrives one day an art dealer who is curious about a young man, a painter, who died there many years before. The art dealer is followed by others of his kind. It turns out that the late Christopher Bean's paintings, considered worthless while he was alive, are now worth fabulous sums. The art dealers want to know whether the doctor had kept...
...retainer (Marie Dressier), produces an unusually dextrous and amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...
Produced last winter as a play, Christopher Bean emerges in the cinema only mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...