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...Synagog which used to be in West Madison Street and attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over a restaurant and next door to a cheap cinema??? for the opening of the high holy day, Rosh Hashana (Sept. 25). Already in place on two walls of the Synagog were ten large murals depicting the Ten Commandments. They were painted in true fresco by A. (for Alexander) Raymond Katz, 40, a Hungarian-born Jew who leads a Jewish...
...rudely to Joan Blondell. At one point he fetches her a light clip on the jaw. Though Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright wrote dialog in their own idiom, the original authors, Gene Fowler and Joe Laurie Jr., were obviously thinking of Grand Hotel and possibly Transatlantic. But the cinema???artistically at least?is a good borrower and the fact is that stories in the pattern of Grand Hotel, Transatlantic, Union Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost over before you remember to take your coat off. When you leave...
Shadow of the Law (Paramount). This crook story might have been made into almost any kind of cinema???absolute nonsense, or a fair program piece, or, as has happened, into highly successful and entertaining melodrama. Between the time when Powell kills a man accidentally, and goes to. jail for life for a murder he has not committed?a murder which can be explained only by the woman who was in the room when it happened and who refuses to give her testimony?through Powell's prison life, his escape, the new career he makes for himself, the shadow...
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