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Algiers (Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia; TIME, July...
Actor Charles Boyer's confident, romantic, tragic Pepe le Moko, and Joseph Spurin-Calleia's unhurried, calculating Slimane are cinememorable. So are Director John Cromwell's handling of this strangely fraternal, chaseless man hunt, and such intense scenes as that in which an informer (Gene Lockhart), backing away in terror as his executioners advance, jars a mechanical piano into action, dies to a ragtime tune. But best of all is the smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage...
...what New York tabloids like to think is a close parallel to l'affaire Simpson, the picture retells the tragic story of Archduke Rudolph, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, who gave up position, property, and finally life itself, for the woman he loved. Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux are no strangers to American audiences, but under the skillful direction of a compatriot. Anatole Litvac, and unhampered by a plot that demands love, spectacle, and a happy ending, they give to their roles a depth of emotional feeling rarely seen on American screens. For those who have not already seen...
...refused to answer questions about Actress Garbo. "I have a right to my private life when I want it," said he. "One must think in solitude to create. That is what I am doing now." The reporters tried another tack, asked him his favorite cinema stars. Stoky chose Charles Boyer and John Barrymore. Asked for his choice in actresses, he shook his head, "Let's go to another subject...
Because the Empire State Building is struck so frequently, researchers of General Electric Co., looking for light on lightning (to help them protect transmission lines) began to photograph it from another building. The research was under the direction of Karl Boyer McEachron, 48, G. E.'s ace lightning researcher, who has been designing experimental apparatus Pittsfield for 16 years, has produced artificial bolts of 10,000,000 volts, others of 250,000 amperes (amperage is the amount of current, voltage the pressure which drives it). Last week Engineer McEachron reported the results of three summers of Empire State Building...