Word: concealments
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...joint committee of railroad presidents under President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania met in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station with motor transport executives under the leadership of Vice President Alfred Harris Swayne of General Motors. The conferees issued an amiable announcement following the meeting which failed to conceal the fact that they had pointedly agreed to disagree: "It would be impractical to ask either the railway group or the highway users group to discontinue their efforts in support of or opposition to proposed legislation...
Pictures based on pseudo-philosophical ideas need to be developed with proper kind of dramatic emphasis to be as effective as, for instance, Outward Bound. This one is not. It moves too slowly and its ingenious story idea does not conceal the fact that its authors were so dazzled by their plot that they failed to investigate its possibilities. Warner Baxter performs with the dignity proper to a patriot aware that he is dead. Ablest things in the picture are probably the work of its director, William Dieterle, and the shot of a crowd which has heard about the Captain...
...Satan (by Donald Hey wood; Shillwood Productions, Inc., producer) is a Harlem composer's idea of Roark Bradford's idea of a Negro's idea of Biblical history. Playwright Heywood, author of dance tunes for Blackbirds, makes no effort to conceal his attempt to paraphrase super-successful The Green Pastures. Instead of having an old darky and a Sunday school class of pickaninnies to introduce the various scenes of his mystery play, he employs a Negro mammy...
...Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution. But at last simple hearts in the persons of Grandpop Strawn and a bootlegger enter as surprise, witnesses and tell the truth, which sounds entirely incredible against the massed perjuries of Glenwood Park. So they perjure themselves...
Tribune and Post printed comparatively restrained reports. But the Daily News and Hearst's Herald & Examiner scarcely tried to conceal their evident belief that Mrs. Pollak's efforts to escape punishment were as ludicrous and hilarious as Roxie Hart's, also as empty of merit and as likely to succeed. The Herald & Examiner assigned its cinema reviewer, Carol Frink, to cover the trial as she might cover a comic melodrama...