Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will Rogers, with his homely aphorisms and rustic personality, brings to life on the screen an almost classic character. In the role of the New England horsetrader and village banker in the nineties, he dominates the picture with his ingenuous humor...
...devoid of emotion. Her casual meeting with the traveler arouses all her suppressed feelings, and the climax is reached when the father discovers the two together. The girl turns against her father, and he dies. The young man goes on his way, and she is now completely forsaken. Classic in its simplicity and directness, it bears eloquent testimony to the possibilities of the screen...
...Airships are fine! We need more of 'em. But they have got to be handled by people with some common sense. The Akron disaster was a classic example of thick-headedness and incompetency. There is only one capable airship commander in this country, and that is Rosendahl. He's a good man, but they've got him out at sea on board a battleship, while a lot of inexperienced pups fool around with the Macon...
...will be reopened and studied over. Pictures tell a story more easily, more quickly, and more convincingly than any conceivable collection of words. The tragic picture of Herbert Hoover and President Roosevelt driving together on March 4, 1933, both subdued at the ruins of a great country, approaches the classic. The photographs of riots and lynchings; cruel, pathetic, bestial, describe the animal man with a conciseness unattainable otherwise. The titles and the selection of pictures of "The Roosevelt Year" are sometimes monotonous and disappointing, but this is relatively unimportant...
...produced so far, but the producers have let her down on the story. This is "Spitfire," now showing at the R.K.O. Keith Theatre. Laid in a poor white district somewhere in the South, "Spitfire" is a period for marking time as regards Miss Hepburn's rise to the classic heights of Greta Garbo...