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Less ambitiously contrived than such past celluloid legal biographies as The Mouthpiece (Warners) and For The Defense (Paramount), Man of the People is rather a character sketch than a story. In spite of its quiet manner and narrative form, it carries the conviction that always clings to an interesting subject handled with a minimum of frills. This conviction depends on accumulated detail and testifies to Screen Playwright Frank Dolan's diligent observation in the days when he was covering trials for Manhattan newspapers...
...Allen assures us that he is satisfied with the transformation of "Anthony Adverse", and there is no reason for the moviegoer to feel otherwise. The celluloid Anthony differs, to be sure, from the paper one, but so long as the movie is good in itself, a comparison is more or less idle...
...cinema. The movies for several years now have been offering their humble deference to the older sister, in the form of receiving players and plots, and the haughty stage has been responding with scornful excoriations. The stage's chief tenet is that anyone really a part of the celluloid industry must perforce be moronic...
...seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well be heard from in box-office terms...
...snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...