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...know that they use blanks in Hollywood. But why not pretend?--"Blessings on you, Carla," says Rudi as the bullet pierces his arm, or chest... "Sooch a lock of patriotism, not to shoot the spy." The director paled. "Don't be crazy, Professor. They shot Mata Hari, and Marlene Dietrich in her spy picture. And did the public eat it, did the public eat it? No. The public wants realism...
...make legible their messages in invisible ink she is lolling crisply in the arms of a Viennese secret agent (Gilbert Roland) and saying in her Parkavian voice how much she loves him. Just when it looks as though Miss Bennett, like Greta Garbo in Mata Hari and Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored, will receive attention from a firing squad, an assistant spy shoots the Viennese secret agent severely enough to keep him quiet till the War is over. After Tonight is a slow and thoroughly affected picture, but it contains as much talk about codes as any current editorial page...
...Song of Songs (Paramount), impaired somewhat by the glum reverence with which the cinema customarily treats the classics, is a pictorially beautiful adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's famed novel. It shows Marlene Dietrich, sinning as usual, but not without good reason. She is Lily Czepanek, a Berlin model who suffers successively from associations with a drunken, tyrannical aunt, a faithless lover, a brutish husband and a riding master...
...would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought the rights to Music in the Air, planned a series of shorts made from old nickelodeon cinemas. Paramount ballyhooed Mae West louder than Marlene Dietrich, planned to stop sending its feature pictures to outlying districts before they have been screened in Paramount's pretentious string of urban theatres...
...church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan. Hollywood, Berkeley, Calif., Sioux City and Minneapolis. They hope soon to form a national organization. The Minneapolis group is under the guidance of a Humanist pioneer, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich who, nominally Unitarian, began preaching Humanism 18 years ago and now has 2,000 followers. Humanists like Dietrich and Potter are the only preachers of whom grumpy Clarence Darrow approves. Humanist Dietrich signed last week's manifesto, as did Humanist Potter. Journalist Harry Elmer Barnes. John Dewey. one-time...