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...novellette effects, "Katia" manages to stir up cavalier emotions in an audience hardened by Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Despite its shallow "profundity" qui est tres francais, the dialogue sounds surprisingly convincing in the mouths of Alexander and his entourage, who achieved movie sentimentality even before the invention of celluloid. By no means historically faithful, "Katia" catches the spirit of the era it depicts--perhaps because Alexandrine Russia was still so desperately French...
...Nick Carter, Master Detective," hot out of the pulps, supplies some streamlined blood-and-thunder to supplement the drawing-room, farce of "Remember?" There is also an edition of "Information Please," adapted from the air waves. Curiously enough, it isn't as good on celluloid. Canada Dry's experts might better have been cast in some Boris Karloff picture to scare the kiddies...
...they are easier to play. Through some mysterious process inherent in aging, the violin becomes mechanically more responsive-it begins to "speak" a fraction of a second sooner when force is applied to the strings. Dr. Saunders experimented with a motor-operated machine which bowed the violins by elastic celluloid disks in such a way that the force required to produce a singing tone could be measured. In the old violins the force required was slightly less...
...carried it through to Garcia. Along with being able to sing tap-dance play the piano, imitate Roosevelt, and other odd jobs, it might even he said that Rooney can act. His introduction to the problem of smoking a cigar is one of the funniest scenes put on Celluloid in a long time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office has found out that the younger generation clinches once or twice before they're twenty-five. All in all, "Babes in Arms" is a top-flight musical, has a plot with...
...fire and dash of Dumas' book have been taken out of the print and put into celluloid with remarkable skill. The fire, or at least the heat, emanates principally from Joan Bennett, who is making a noble effort to cash in on the Technique Lamarr with a black wig and a sultry eye. Though she's no Hedy, she'll do. The dash is supplied by Louis Hayward who really carries the show. With two vividly contrasting parts to work with, he has ample opportunity to prove himself a persuasive actor,--and he does...