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He was in San Francisco waiting to sail for Australia with Willie Collier and a road company of The Dictator when the 1906 earthquake occurred. Having spent the previous night away from home unexpectedly, he had nothing to put on but a full dress suit. In the bewildered, terrified crowds...
Alia Nazimova, 50, was born of well-to-do, cultivated parents in Yalta, the Crimea. She had schooling at Zurich, studied the violin at Odessa, spent four years in a Moscow dramatic school. Aged 26, she made her U. S. debut after a European tour with Paul Orleneff's...
Authors Morris Ernst & Pare Lorentz here put forth a vigorous polemic against the present apparatus of cinema censorship. Say they: though the National Board of Review does not officially censor, merely "suggests" changes, recommends certain cinemas, withholds recom- mendation from others, in practice it amounts to a federal censorship board...
Censored is illuminated by lively illustrations: shots from famed cinemas deleted by various state censors, by photo- graphs of some of the censors themselves. Says Colyumist Heywood Broun: "I al? most believe that the authors could prove their case by doing no more than print the portraits of the men...
Slightly Scarlet (Paramount). More than slightly foolish, this decorative melodrama of jewel thieves at work and play on the Riviera belongs to a comparatively new but increasingly comprehensive category of sound-cinemas. Its story is insipid and a lot of its talk ridiculous, but it it so well-made, its...