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...damages assessed recalled the historic Danbury Hatters case, which was fought through the courts for twelve years before it was passed upon by the Supreme Court in 1915. The hatters' union declared a nation-wide boycott on hats of an open-shop Danbury hat manufacturer, the late Dietrich E. Loewe. Hat-Maker Loewe then founded the American Anti-Boycott Association, sued the union, won a judgment of $252,000 against 200 union members. Homes and other property of the workers were attached, but the unionists swore they would not pay even if their homes were foreclosed...
...returning student who wishes to case himself gently into the rut of academic life, the University's current program is warmly endorsed. The two attractions are excellently balanced, and if "The Awful Truth" has fared better at the box office, Marlene Dietrich's "Angel" still carries off many of the honors...
...acting of "Angel" is never brilliant, the story is improbable, and the conclusion not wholly convincing; but sheer technique has raised it above the common run. The photography, particularly in the close-ups of Miss Dietrich, the skillful contrast of the gowns she wears as Angel and Maria's tailored English costumes, the detail of the sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove...
...program of a Command Performance], which existed during the lifetime of King George V., did not arise last night. The present King and Queen have seen sufficient films and plays to appreciate fully, as they obviously did, Miss Florence Desmond's keenly-detailed and effective burlesques of Dietrich, Garbo, Dorothy Dickson-and especially good, Jessie Matthews...
...Ernst Lubitsch since he stopped being Paramount's production boss and went back to directing. It is the kind of picture in which the characters move about in carefully articulated poses, in costly sets, talking about their emotions and playing well-bred tunes on the piano. Marlene Dietrich flutters her eyelashes twice before each line about love and once when her feeling is marital fidelity. Her make-up is so sharpened it makes her look gaunt, but nothing can keep her from looking lovely, and she can still be beautiful in clothes nobody else would dare to wear...