Word: brianing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail and makes his way into the press room through a window. Overcome by the opportunity for a scoop, Hildy Johnson hides the murderer in a rolltop desk, stays to write the story.? Finally the murderer is reprieved, Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien) entrains with his girl (Mary Brian...
...short tunnel, the same passenger also misses his ticket. Arriving at his destination, a health farm, Errol poses as a detective and makes a bellboy (Stuart Erwin) admire him so much that the bellboy has to be given lessons on how to be a detective. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian are present in a sentimental subplot but their talent is pretty much wasted. Climax: the automobile chase after the kleptomaniac has robbed a bank...
...westerns, poured inaudibly from the lips of frontier villains. This Zane Grey story, however, is nicely photographed and contains all the proper western elements-mortgaged ranch, murdered cattleman, girl from the east, rescuer on horseback, crooked sheriff. It is all played humorlessly but fairly effectively by Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and a villain named Fred Kohler. Best shots: Harry Green as a Jewish cattle-rustler; a scene in which a herd of wild horses rushes through a fence and over a sloping plain...
...Merry Widow" with Beppie De Vries and Donald Brian, the original Prince Danilo, if it does nothing more, gives some idea of the sort of things our fathers liked. There has been so much said about the splendor of this particular opus of Mr. Lehar that one is likely to form exaggerated expectations, especially if the previous revivals in this group have not been seen. The vastness of modern musical plays are very apt to make one forget that George White and Florenz Ziegfeld are unique to this generation. Therefore, those who know of this operetta only through the famous...
Miss De Vries in the leading role makes a quite piquant widow in spite of her not particularly pleasant voice, and as for Donald Brian, it is impossible to imagine that he played the same part in 1907. Mr. Figman in the part of the ambassador is thoroughly amusing while the rest of the cast falls below average. The smallness of the accompanying orchestra and the fact that the costuming is modern does much to destroy the expected illusion of the grand old manner...