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...much heralded Marlene Dietrich has at last come to Boston in Josef Von Sternberg's latest production, "Morocco". This new German star appears to be a combination of Greta Garbo and Evelyn Brent in more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...
Gary Cooper is at his best here as a carefree Legionnaire with the usual forgotten or unmentioned past. His habit of underacting is prominent, leaving a great deal to the audience, especially when Marlene Dietrich is in the same scene. These two are constantly leading the audience towards an intellectual understanding of the actors' emotions, and not pandering to their visionary sense alone...
Adolph Menjou portrays a wealthy man about town with honorable intentions but who is never better than second best in the campaign to win the fair Dietrich. He is an admirable choice for the part of such a suave character...
...Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog" of the primitive, remade silent pictures, but incisive, necessary words, labelling and shaping the main currents of the plot. Marlene Dietrich talks with hardly a trace of accent. In her first U. S. picture she lives up to the elaborate publicity issued for her. Her curiously combined resemblances to Greta Garbo and the late Jeanne Eagels do not lessen the impact of her own personality. Gary Cooper's expert underacting...
...Marlene Dietrich, German, had tried to be a violinist, given it up, studied drama at Max Reinhardt's school and played in the German version of Broadway when von Sternberg put her on contract. He said: "Thank God you are not like the American actresses. You can make more than three faces." Mysterious on the screen, she is plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until...