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Director RenéClair won his first fame with a simple love story. Sous Les Toits de Paris, his second fame and third with brilliant satiric farragos, Le Million and A Nous La Liberté. July 14 is a simple love story of a blonde flower-seller (Annabella) and a taxi-driver (Georges Rigaud). Across the street in the shadow of Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night...
This slender story tells of nothing more than the frustration of some small people, their dependence on chance, their suspicious efforts to avoid what is simplest and best for them, their loneliness and the simple decorum of their pleasures. In July 14 Director Clair's chief advance is in further developing and expressing the characters of that small troupe of actors that he has slowly assembled for their humane spontaneity. There is beautiful lively Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with...
...very best sort. Maurice Chevalier and Edward Everett Horton are a good deal funnier than they have been before, thanks to clever dialogue and a few gags which are on a level with those of Mr. Chaplin. In the direction by Norman Taurog you will find evidence that Rene Clair's technique has been imitated, and with considerable success. As movies go, "The Way To Love" should please everyone; it is never too subtle for the masses, for too serious for the classes...
There is always at least one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. It was almost a relief to the crowd of 325,000, in boats and grandstands on the banks of the St. Clair River near Marine City, Mich., when the mishap came so early last week. Just before the race, Horace E. Dodge decided to enter his three- year-old Delphine V, rebuilt for a speed of 85 m.p.h., to help Gar Wood's Miss America X, which has gone 124 m.p.h., defend the Cup against this year's British challenger, Hubert Scott-Paine...
...atmosphere which one detects in "Zoo in Budapest," is not wholly a matter of mise-en-scene and photography. In the delightful zoo where a humorous elephant squirts a trunkful of water over a handsomely malignant tiger, and serene swans float by in the twilight, the influence of Rene Clair's romantic humor is paramount. If the Gallic touch cannot long survive translation to Hollywood at any rate it is charmingly present in this temperate fantasy...