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...free entertainment, too: radio, theatre, movies.) Each Friday when the "March of Time" comes on, a hush falls over the crowd of listeners. They like it. Last night at the Home Theatre, two comedians came on the stage, one a Democrat, one a Republican. The boys interrupted their dialog to cheer loud & long-for the Democrat. J. F. WALTON...
...enemy ship's searchlight flashing on the wall of the stateroom in which the lady is sequestered?but it is otherwise slim pickings. Aided by Walter Huston, in a mustache, as the captain, and Warren William, as an admirer, Lil Dagover is distressed by circumstances of plot and dialog like those which have hampered other recent debuts of imported stars. She tries hard but all her part gives her a chance to show is a strong facial resemblance to Lynn Fontanne and a willingness to do better next time...
...which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly in the fact that Gloria Swanson performs more quietly than Helen Gahagan; her restraint makes the dialog seem more knowing than...
...Zita Johann, is a shiftless and pitiably stupid homily which, esthetically and financially, should be an embarrassment to all concerned. Its story-of a steel-worker who takes to tippling and ends up with a case of delirium tremens in a thunderstorm-is really no story at all. The dialog is atrocious. Hal Skelly gives a drivelling performance. Zita Johann is miscast. The direction is preWar. Typical shot: Skelly, drunk on two whiffs of speakeasy Scotch, staggering home to a wife who shudders at his reeking breath...
Principal audacities in The Greek: mak-ing himself (under his own name) the hero; showing a "seduction scene" by means of dialog. The story: Hero Thayer, vacationing with his wife in Europe, encounters a handsome young Greek, by name Paros. Mrs. Thayer flirts with Paros, falls in love with him. Meantime Thayer has discovered that Paros is a pretender to the Greek throne, the idolized head of a world-wide Society which is gradually getting Greece under its control. Thayer becomes Paros' henchman, surrenders his wife, sinks himself in the Society's work. Eventually, a mere devil...