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Stolen Heaven is more likable than most gem-thievery pictures because its pattern is fringed with immortal music. The characters hide behind doors and talk crook lingo while the sound track throbs with Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Moszkowski, Strauss. The music is introduced by having the pianist practicing incessantly for a promised return to the concert stage. Best number: a montage giving an idea of what Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody might look like if sounds were pictures...
...tries to find them again, the camera shows dramatic glimpses into many lives. The first was a suicide for love of Cristine, but lives on in the mind of a grief-mad mother. Another, the one who wooed her in verse, is now a slick crook. The composer (Harry Baur), of whose lyric tribute she was gaily unappreciative, has turned priest. The optimist (Raimu) who was going to be president is mayor of his village, is about to wed his cook. She traces the next to the Marseille water front. There the cameras are literally tilted, and with shrewdly-angled...
...report on his Wagner-Steagall Housing Amendment. When that is disposed of, the conference report on the Farm Bill will also be "privileged" over the Anti-Lynching Bill, keeping it off the floor until its sponsors can gracefully withdraw. Thus last week the legislation that the South, by hook, crook, or filibuster, has throttled in Congress for 35 years seemed to be throttled once more...
...favorite alias. It begins with farce, but before the first of the two acts is over, the spectator learns that he is dealing with criminals plentifully sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists of an unemployed minister, a woman who pretends to bear the baby several days before it is kidnaped, the doctor who attends at the bogus birth, and a nurse. The "mother" gets excessively nervous...
...revealed that Adams had made four wills quite close together in point of time. In addition to the will which names Harvard the chief beneficiary there are bequests which give the $70,000 estate to Henry Gordon Thistle, male nurse and masseur employed by Adams, and to Jesse D. Crook, an old friend and associate in the practice...