Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always pleasant to look at Constance Bennett, it would follow that any picture she is in should be seen. This applies to "Service De Luxe," which opened yesterday at the Memorial. A tendency to drag in spots and a too-melodramatic ending are the chief faults of this film, which will neither edify nor inspire, but which should certainly amuse. In addition to Miss Bennett and a novel plot, the picture offers Charles Ruggles and Helen Broderick in roles that do them justice, and Mischa Auer in one of the best pieces of acting he has ever done...
...death itself, is touching if over-favorable in its presentation. Unfortunately Tyrone Power, Miss Shearer's leading man, does not give her the support she deserves. His portrayal of Court Fersen is un convincing; in the emotional heights of tender love scenes, he appears stiff and wooden. What the film suffers in this respect, however, is more than compensated for by Robert Morley in his role as Louis XVI. This young actor does a masterful picturization of the loyal, but pathetically simple King, who would rather fashion wooden soldiers than attend to affairs to state...
...Elected president of RKO to succeed retiring Lawyer Leo Spitz was bulky, greying, onetime film salesman, George Joseph Schaefer, now distribution head of United Artists. First Schaefer job at RKO: steering the bankrupt company through a reorganization plan which the U. S. District Court is expected to approve this week...
...first meeting of the year last night, the Slavic Circle presented the Soviet film "Chapayev" before a capacity crowd in the Winthrop House Common Room. Preceding the showing of the film Ernest J. Simmons of the Slavie department spoke briefly on the life of Chapayev and the significance of the movie in the development of Soviet cinema...
Boris Babochkin, who plays the title role, is one of the Russia's outstanding actors and holds the title, "Peoples Artist of the Republic." Especial credit goes to the two brothers who directed the film, Sergei and Georgi Vasilyev...