Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filming "Around the World in Eighty Minutes" Douglas Fairbanks has made the most entertaining travelogue that the Playgoer has ever soon. The photography alone would recommend it highly, but this is only part. Mr. Fairbanks' running-fire comment, through starting out somewhat in the Graham McNamee vein, grows better and better as time goes by. Above all, there is an incredibly clever continuity to make a smoothly-flowing film out of disconnected scenes. Mr. Fairbanks is never at a loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride...
Much talk centred on Fox Film Corp. People wondered when the vacation of Vice President and General Manager Winfield R. Sheehan would end, if at all. Edward Richmond Tinker who suddenly became president of Fox last November after a long career as a banker with Chase National, left Manhattan for his first official visit to Hollywood. Certain contract cancellations on his part caused much bitter comment on the lots. Undertone to all Fox gossip was the story that William Fox will again obtain control of his company...
...first time in America, Marcel Pagnol's "Marius", hailed by French crities as the greatest French film of recent times, will be presented in the Geography Buildings, 2 Divinity Avenue, on Friday and Saturday, February 26 and 27. There will be three performances each day at 2.30, 5.15, and 8.15 o'clock. Beginning February 23, tickets may be obtained free of charge by Harvard and Radeliffe students at University B on presentation of bursar's card. There will be no admission without tickets...
...film "Marius" was produced at Marseilles where the action takes place and was directed by the author...
...business to sustain the whole show. Whenever the film begins to gather momentum, the director inserts an ill-advised comic interlude, wherein Frederick Kerr lends a English country-house atmosphere to a supposedly German baronial castle. It is nevertheless quite possible to overlook such discrepancies and to find the show entertaining...