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Southern Star, In the last 20 years the South has produced fiercely regional literature by the bale, but almost no first-rate painters. This week one star risen from the bayous was shining bright in an exhibition at the Boyer Galleries of 19 paintings by 26-year-old John McCrady of New Orleans, his first one-man show in Manhattan. Born and bred in the South, John McCrady came north when he won one of the ten national scholarships to Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1933. The unusually cold winter depressed him. He quit going to classes...
...life, the Archduke Rudolf was a rake and good amateur naturalist, organized a historical survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was rated as a dangerous radical for his anticlerical views. In the person of Charles Boyer he is represented as a handsome neurotic, ridden by court ceremonial, badgered by his father's spies, obstructed from netting the fluttering virginity of a beautiful child Baroness (Danielle Darrieux). Following the type of all well-bred monarchical romances, the Prince enjoys himself most when sharing incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening...
History Is Made At Night (United Artists) is not historical, only faintly nocturnal. It is a gusty romantic divertissement hand-tailored by Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker to fit the talents of its three principal players, Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur and Leo Carrillo. Its purpose is entertainment and it achieves its end. Its importance, cinematically, is due largely to a shipwreck sequence which takes rank with the famed earthquake in San Francisco...
...Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond avoids compromising Irene Vail by posing as a holdup man, seizing Irene's jewels, kidnapping her so that he can return them. After a happy night with him, Irene walks...
...that had no business being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer as a renegade monk give performances that one can appreciate without an adequate story, and the picture's coloring guarantee it the box-office success it would not receive had it been produced in the customary black and white. Technicolor is both the strength and weakness of the "Garden...