Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film is well photographed, well acted, and the adaptation of Charles Francis Coe's story, while it retains little of the original, is certainly a superior bit of craftsmanship. But with all this it misses fire somewhere along the way; and it is difficult for the reviewer to tell just where...
Eddie Cantor has turned up some strange talent on his radio shows, but none is much worse than little Bobby Breen, his romantic singing youngster. Filmed in a horse-and-buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...
...Story of Louis Pasteur, got two Oscars, for the best original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The Academy gave out 15 other Oscars for everything from film editing to sound recording. Of these, four went to MGM, six to Warner Brothers. Biggest Oscar collection in Hollywood is that of Cartoonist Walt Disney. Last week he got his fifth, for the best cartoon of the year, Mickey Mouse's Country Cousin...
Married. Helene Emma Madison, 24, famed free-style swimmer, 1932 Olympic champion in the 100-and 400-metre races; and Luther C. Mclvor, builder of Wenatchee, Wash.'s Rock Island Dam; at Wenatchee. Breaker of many records before she turned professional in 1932, Swimmer Madison made a film in Hollywood (The Warrior's Husband), went home to Seattle disillusioned, sold hot dogs to pay her way through nursing school...
...Post-Dispatch and ended the career of the last authentic Star Reporter of national renown. Fifty-five when he died, Reporter Rogers had worked on the Post-Dispatch for 20 years, on other papers for 13 before that. If his exploits are made the basis for a melodramatic newspaper film, the script will require the addition of no synthetic excitement, for Reporter Rogers' professional life was as adventurous as they come...