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...Pacific possession. He returned with the same fixed idea. Last week he was summoned to the Capitol to testify on a bill prepared by Senators Hawes & Cutting which would progressively free the Philippines over a five year period. Before the Senate Territories & Insular Affairs Committee the following dialog occurred...
When Mr. Dyson had finished this explanation he was asked a few questions by Monroe Creel List, I. C. C. counsellor. Dialog...
...down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing in the sanitorium, is promoted to doctor's wife. The dialog is ridiculous but adequate for the plot. Individually the players deserve mention for their fortitude...
...obvious problem which confronted Director Ernst Lubitsch was how to make moving pictures tell a story in which not the actions of the characters but the dark violence of their thoughts was the important matter. His dialog writers did not help him much and there are probably actors who would have done better as the remorseful Frenchman than Phillips Holmes, though the part is well adapted to Holmes's technique of behaving as though in a quandary at all times. Lionel Barrymore as the father of the dead German acts magnificently and so far out of his ordinary manner that...
Prompted, doubtless, by recent activities of Clark Gable and James Cagney, Fairbanks speaks rudely to Joan Blondell. At one point he fetches her a light clip on the jaw. Though Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright wrote dialog in their own idiom, the original authors, Gene Fowler and Joe Laurie Jr., were obviously thinking of Grand Hotel and possibly Transatlantic. But the cinema?artistically at least?is a good borrower and the fact is that stories in the pattern of Grand Hotel, Transatlantic, Union Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost...