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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance, and with his suave, dashing acting captures to a great degree the manner and character of Dumas' immortal hero. Fortunately for the picture, however, the love-interest as supplied by Elissa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/24/1935 | See Source »

Whatever other advantages it may possess, the new type of detective picture is at least likely to help eradicate from the U. S. cinema that traditional scene in which the comedy character begins to hiccup and mispronounce while gulping at his second cocktail. In Star of Midnight, Clay Dalzell (William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

I have noticed in the public lavatories of the Houses that a certain commodity, a commodity that is indispensable to any bathroom, has been marked along the edges of the rolls with colored crayons. Obviously the only possible reason for ornamenting this necessity in this manner is to prevent the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Interested spectators at this domestic duel are the Shales's suburban neighbors, a footloose wife and her browbeaten husband (A. E. Matthews). Good indeed is Actor Matthews' gloomy soliloquy on the virtues of the all-electric house he lives in, while pulling off & on a glove, a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

Whitey is an albino for the same reason that occasional humans are: congenital lack of black pigment cells in the skin. For some reason albino frogs are far rarer than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Albino | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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