Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...routine hazards of adapting a literary classic for the screen are increased in this case by the fact that an earlier adaptation in which Douglas Fairbanks performed in 1921 was a screen classic in its own right. That any subsequent version of the Dumas work would seem tame by comparison was almost inevitable. Consequently, it is to the credit of Author Dumas, Screenwriter Dudley Nichols, Director Rowland V. Lee and a cast of capable sword & cloak actors that this one is still a handsome, charming, and vivacious costume melodrama which, if something less than a cinema milestone, is still better...
...Classic Japanese heroes are the famed Forty Seven Ronin who perished centuries ago but live in Japanese brains today as examples of furtive, desperate, suicidal valor. Last week the Chinese military commander of Hopei Province, General Shang Chen, charged that "modern Japanese ronin" are sneaking about in his province stirring up Chinese farmers to revolt...
...Cummings-Arrow Editions ($3). The practice of bringing a sentimental classic up-to-date usually opens the door tor a display of easy superiority over antique quaintness. The distinction of E. E. Cummmgs' ballet based on Uncle Tom's Cabin is that the poet has accepted completely the elemental seriousness and flowery melodrama of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Ingeniously impressed into four episodes, the first ending with Eliza's escape as she starts across the ice, the last with Tom's magnificent entry into Heaven, the ballet gives a free play...
...until the unknown General's column was well past Mount Mussa Ali. Then from all sides they struck. Two Italian mule caravans freighted with food and munitions were captured, according to bug-eyed native runners who reached Dessye. They said that the main Italian column, fighting in the classic hollow square formation Queen Victoria's troops used in the Sudan, managed to stand off the tribesmen with a loss of 200 native and white Italian troops. Dejected, bedraggled and burning with thirst, they made their way back to Italian Eritrea...
Long before A Midsummer Night's Dream had got beyond the casting stage in Hollywood, London literary bigwigs were holding indignation meetings to denounce Hollywood's "impudence" in meddling with such a classic. In London last week, where U. S. Ambassador Bingham, Mrs. Winston Churchill, the Marquess of Queensberry, Sir Philip Ben Greet, and a theatre full of their peers saw the opening. newspaper critics agreed that A Mid-summer Night's Dream was "exquisite." '"dazzling," ''magnificent," "of extraordinary beauty." In Manhattan, where so many reviewers attended the first night that the gala premiere...