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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idiot's Delight (by Robert Emmet Sherwood; Theatre Guild, producer), though all about the next World War, is nothing so pretentious as the film of Herbert George Wells's Things to Come (see p. 43). Playwright Sherwood got a belly-full of fighting in the last War, is now afraid that another Armageddon is forthcoming. In the printed version of Idiot's Delight,* there is evidence that he had misgivings about his work's presentation before hostilities actually began. "What will happen before this play reaches print or a New York audience," says...
Things to Come (London Films) is a $1,400,000, two-hour cinematic summary of the history of the next 100 years. It marks the debut of Herbert George Wells as a screenwriter. It places Alexander Korda's London Film Productions Ltd. on a par with Hollywood for production power as well as brains. It tells an extraordinary story which, while it may not convince cinemaddicts, is likely to captivate them...
Since what happens 100 years hence is of no consequence to anyone now old enough to enjoy the cinema, the notion of producing a film of which the longest and most spectacular portions deal with 2036 seems, at first glance, daringly original...
...affiliation was. The majority vote for "strike" causes some measure of sorrow. If the college approves, against what is the so-called strike directed? Another full-blooded word seems to be loosing its vitality through corruption of meaning, in a manner reminiscent of once expressive adjectives appropriated by the film industry...
...Widow from Monte Carlo," obviously made for the second half of a two-film program, suffers accordingly...