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...little parasols, but the musical comedy atmosphere is left, inconsequential and agreeable. Before the football player has married the secretary and escaped the trap the boss was laying for him, you have stopped paying attention without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face...
...married to Cinemactress Betty Compson, who calls him "the Great Dane." He has more drive than any other director in Hollywood...
...Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length and 52 short Radio pictures, all of which will talk, many of which will also sing. In these pictures will appear Richard Dix, Rudy Vallee, Rod La Rocque, Owen Moore, Bebe Daniels, Betty Compson. Writers will include Ben Hecht, Charles McArthur, Eugene Walter, Viña Delmar. Thus among great film companies must be ranked Radio Corp., and to the list of cinema tycoons must be added the name of short, stocky David Sarnoff, Radio Corp.'s Vice President and General Manager. Inasmuch...
...first feature Radio picture, Street Girl, with Betty Compson, was given a private showing in Manhattan last week. Meanwhile, Rio Rita, the Ziegfeld musical comedy, was made into cinemusic in Radio's Hollywood studio. Radio has $50,000,000 to put into pictures this year...
...with the Show (Warner). The faint, yellowish color which tints this film most of the time well suits a musical show. Betty Compson is pretty and so are most of the other girls. Ethel Waters sings in her husky, exciting Negro voice. The story of backstage life is tedious, archaic, complicated. The music is about what you would get in a drawing-room operetta. In spite of these drawbacks, this picture is the most interesting of its type to date. Best shot: the ballet coming down a flight of stairs in feathers...