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Directed in the vivid, light style of Rene Clair and Ernst Lubitsch, the French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...
...Quatorze Juillet" by Rene Clair will be presented by the French Talking Films Committee this Thursday and Friday, March 15 and 16 at the Institute of Geographical Exploration on Divinity Avenue. Performances will be given at 2, 6.30 and 8.45 o'clock on Thursday and at 2, 4.15, 6.30, and 8.45 o'clock on Friday. This is the fifth in a series of six pictures which are being given this year...
...Rene Clair's theme is simpler than usual. The two young lovers are finally reunited by the unoriginal trick of having Jean's taxi collide with Anna's flower cart. And yet Mr. Clair succeeds in making his sentimental story uniquely plausible. Japanese lanterns, a cawing band, and dancing couples serve as a background to the first part of the film. We were delighted with the customs of an irrelevant family in this film that was awed on one occasion to find Anne and Jean embraced at their front door and almost proud to see the same exhibition several months...
...safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower wing supported the craft. Passengers and crew clambered atop the upper wing, huddled in the darkness until rescuers took them ashore...
...Clair's stable of actors, designers and technical men, Annabella is the only rebel. On the lot she refuses to work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract...