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...adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals of the whole cast leave the audience in an exuberant, happy frame of mind. Just to make the program absolutely earth-shattering, the management has thrown in les cinq Dionnes...
...French now, and much improved by the process. And so it is with the talkies. It is the essence of a French talking-picture that contains subtle refinements on the Hollywood craft which transforms the craft into something at least approaching an art. Such is the case with "Les Cinq Gentlemen Maudits" presented today and tomorrow by the French Talking Films Committee at the Geography Building...
...authors." While this may be an admirable policy, it should only be followed when there is a sufficiently worth-while play to make use of. This is clearly not true of "Serenade," which is a sentimental, unconvincing hodgepodge of seventeenth century intrigue and gallantry, having to do with a Cinq-Mars conspirator and two agents of Richelieu. The acting was as uninspired as the play, with the exception of Mrs. Neill Phillips, who in the part of Diane de Pierreneuve, spoke with a perfect accent and acted rather well. The reviewer recommends that Le Cercle be chary...
Rene Lefevre, who played the leading ing role in "Le Million," which was presented by the committee last year, takes the part of the young traveler in "Cinq Gentilhommes Maudits." Barry Baur, the Fault Jannings of the French stage who plays the lead in "David Golder," which will be produced later in the year, is cast as the genial host in the coming film. The role of the heroine is portrayed by Rose Dercan. Jacques Ibert composed the music, which aids greatly in the interpretation of the story
Died. Brigadier General Robert Henry Dunlap, 51, of the U. S. Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...