Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everybody's Welcome is a musi-comedy version of last season's comedy Up Pops the Devil, which retains just enough of the original story & dialog to provide Frances Williams, Oscar Shaw, Jack Sheehan and Cecil Lean with an adequate background for their monkey business. Love in a Greenwich Village flat becomes love in a penthouse, with the Empire State Building (minus the new red light) instead of the moon looking benevolently through the window. Mild satire on the writing business becomes broad burlesque of the giant "Proxy" cinemansion. A minor character in the original play becomes Frances...
...very nature of its work the Student Employment Office frequently finds itself between the devil and the sea. Its avowed purpose is to help the needy man in every way possible, yet to help the needy man it must serve the employer. Often the employer furnishes specifications which no needy man on the list of registrants can fulfill. Consequently others financially less deserving must be given the jobs. This naturally gives rise to misunderstanding among the students, who usually are ignorant of the employer's demands and feel that the Office has been guilty of unfair discrimination...
...crematory people. Though they have stoutly maintained that a funeral director cannot profitably own his own retorts, this is not the case. They simply want to cremate so that they can sell the urn and the niche. Funeral directors often take bodies to crematories, and have a devil of a time getting the ashes. The crematory people want to get into the families, and spread the high-power selling racket." Editor Witman's solution: Let the funeral director carry a sideline of urns at a modest price and "sell" a bigger funeral. As in most trade magazines, there...
...merits of the picture are, as they should be. more dramatic than didactic. It introduces with too much profusion and too little clarity the documents which lead to the conviction of Dreyfus but it is explicit in dealing with later developments of the case: the imprisonment of Dreyfus on Devil's Island; the efforts of Emile Zola and others to establish his innocence; the trial of the real traitor, Major Esterhazy; the subsequent recall and rehabilitation of Dreyfus. The picture suffers from the technical weaknesses of most films manufactured in England but it recreates for its audiences the excitement...
...Author. Alfred Neumann is one of that generation which the War matured fast. The trenches turned his literary aim from poetry to history; his famed novel on Louis XI and his barber, The Devil, won him Germany's Kleist prize, an international audience. Many a U. S. cinemagoer has seen The Patriot, made from Neumann's short story and three-act play. Other books (translated): The Rebels, Guerra, King Haber and Other Stories...