Word: cines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema-Arts' editor is Paul Husserl, onetime script editor for the cine-MARCH OF TIME. Following the current vogue, Editor Husserl packed his first issue with many more pictures than paragraphs, hired four artists, most notably Jaro Fabry, to illuminate what interstices were left between photographs and text. Best shots: a full page of Henry Armetta titled "Portrait of Expostulation " and "Double Feature," a photograph of a Manhattan theatre marquee advertising Romeo & Juliet and Mama Steps...
...Kiss and, for the inevitable climax on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, the Una voce poco fa aria from The Barber of Seville, in which she turns loose the fastest high C yet released on a Hollywood sound track. All these correspond to the school figures of cine-musicomedy. The real pyrotechnics of That Girl from Paris come when Diva Pons puts classical touches on The Blue Danube to a background of swing jazz...
Introduced for the first time to Mickey Mouse at a private showing of Walt Disney's The Band Concert in London, Arturo Toscanini exclaimed, "Surely it is impossible! It is magnificent!", had the film run over again. Hearing that Cine-man Disney planned a European tour, Conductor Toscanini announced: "I shall invite him to my Italian home at Lake Maggiore. Si, si, I shall insist...
...15th anniversary of Soviet cinema, The Youth of Maxim shared first prize with Chapayev (TIME, Jan. 28) and Peasants, to be released in the U. S. next month. Like Chapayev, this attentive and historically intriguing study of the Revolution in its infancy is infused with qualities which U. S. cine-maddicts may find new in Russian cinema: an ability to take its message for granted, to establish a sensible relation between the political preoccupations and the other concerns of its characters, to laugh at itself. Technically as adept as Chapayev, with an equally good performance by Boris Chirkov (last month...
...friend. Pictorial values, backgrounds of the Japanese countryside in spring, and the delicate grain which Cinematographer Okamoto had achieved gave his film distinction. Both winners last week used 8 mm. film. Clardy's camera was an Eastman No. 60 with an 1-1.9 lens. Okamoto used the cheapest Cine Kodak Eight made, model No. 20, which cost...