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...Like It (Paul Czinner) exhibits Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind in the third play by William Shakespeare offered to cinema audiences within the last year. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Max Reinhardt's cinema debut, and Romeo and Juliet, the late Irving Thalberg's masterpiece, had at least one thing in common: neither one has broken records for receipts. The critical acclaim which As You Like It received in London last summer and will receive in the U. S. this winter is not likely to save it from the same fate. Box-office appeal...
...years "Tommy" Horder has been doctoring the British Royal Family. Among his other patients: Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, Actress Elisabeth Bergner, Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. Lord Horder's usual consultation fee is $25. He charged $5,000 to testify to the sanity of Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, eccentric millionairess who repeatedly has tried to help finance British air defense. His offices are in Harley Street...
...Fine Arts has brought Elisabeth Bergner back to Boston for one week, to retrace her sprightly path of vicissitudes through "Escape Me Never." This picture far better than "Katherine the Great," accounts for the extravagant eulogy that critics are wont to toss to the Continental actress. The chief merit of the story is the abundant opportunities it gives its heroine to be versatile in her emotions...
...clear from the opening scenes that Miss Bergner is going to have adventures. But it soon develops that she has already had a baby, somewhat obscurely identified. That is the handicap imposed upon her by the script. Furthermore, she is not very handsome. Thus for both artificial and natural reasons, Miss Bergner has great obstacles between herself and convincing her public that she can win and hold securely the affection of an immoral English musician. But she succeeds eminently, and explains clearly how she won an Academy award last year for this performance...
...film is an English one, and the rest of the cast is unfamiliar to American audiences. It gives Miss Bergner most competent and sympathetic support, of which, however, she needs very little. The program is shared with "The Seeing Eye," showing how German shepherd dogs are trained to lead the blind; "Mexican Idyl," a Musical Mood in technicolor, and Fox Movietone News. And then, at 12.45 every day this week, there is to be heard the Shostakovitch Symphony No.1, recorded by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski...