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...Olympic party disgraced themselves during a performance given for the benefit of the athletes. I refer to the mock marriage and mock trial ... so shocking that many athletes walked out of the social hall. . . . The trial was presided over by Gustavus T. Kirby who so handled the dialog having to do with marital situations that it was open to questionable interpretations and altogether unsuitable for youthful ears...
...murder story as material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences of her grey past, horribly disinterred, menace her daughter's marriage. Even without the punch lines of Louis Weitzenkorn's dialog and its alien back-ground the situation is strong enough to be good entertainment for those who missed the original...
PERELA - Aldo Palazzeschi - Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...
...TIME MURDERS-Charles G. Givens -Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Racy dialog, seething atmosphere, sound plot combine to make palatable to the mystery-addict a chronicle of three kinds of slaughter on a flooded Tennessee estate...
...remorse or access of faith. From these is recruited a third group, the "Magdalens," black-habited nuns who lead an austere contemplative life completely segregated from the other two. Cloistered shows many a calm, luminous face, including that of the plump, masterful Mother Superior. Accompanied by adroitly "dubbed" dialog, church music and a commentary by a U. S. priest named Rev. Matthew Kelly, the picture presents no conflict, reaches no climax, accepts without demur the phenomenon of women adopting a medieval mode of life to become mystical brides of Christ. Much of Cloistered was filmed in a churchly murk illumined...