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...Decorated with a musical score based on Irish folk songs, equipped with intermittent scraps of Gaelic, the picture proves the Aran Islands to be as inhospitable as Director Flaherty could have hoped. Like his other films, it has no professional actors, no narrative structure. It shows an Aran native (Colman King), his wife, their 13-year-old son, fishing, carrying soil in baskets, catching a shark for oil, trudging along cliffs above an angry...
Divorced, Thelma Victoria Maud Colman, English actress; from Ronald Colman, 43, cinemactor (The White Sister, Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond), after a ten-year separation; in London...
...Century. Toothy, excitable little Producer Zanuck plays much polo, squeaks at his teammates in the same shrill tones he uses in story conferences. He likes bombastic entertainment, pictures with high pitch. The Zanuck touch should improve Cardinal Richelieu with George Arliss; Jack London's Call of the Wild; Ronald Colman in Clive of India; The Mighty Barnum, with Wallace Beery in the title role. Samuel Goldwyn, who usually spends and sometimes makes more out of his pictures than any other producer in Hollywood, plans two more Anna Sten pictures, one of them based on Herbert Asbury's Barbary Coast. From...
...Cord, The Late Christopher Bean} of his ten plays have been financially successful. Unlike O'Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star. His adaptation of Arrowsmith won the Cinema Academy prize in 1932. His script of his favorite novel, The Brothers Karamazov (which was never produced because Producer Goldwyn lost a copyright battle with UFA), was considered even better...
...Author. Ray Coryton Hutchinson's first novel (The Answering Glory) made little impression on England. The Unforgotten Prisoner, his second, was chosen by the English Book Society. Twenty-seven-year-old Author Hutchinson has a job with the English advertising firm of J. & B. Colman, leans away from London literati. Before that he was an Oxonian but no esthete, no scholar. Though Author Hutchinson is no old soldier (he was too young to fight in the World War), his deeply-felt picture of post-War chaos will be classed with Erich Maria Remarque's The Road Back...