Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Baur, who played Jean Valjean in the French version of "Les Mserables" has an important part in the feature film, while Robert Lynen, the French Freddie Bartholomew, plays Poil de Carotte, the small boy around whom the plot revolves. Catherine Fonteney, of the Comedie Francaise, has the leading feminine role...
...picture whose unobtrusively adulterous plot is saved from complete unoriginality only by an unhappy ending, the German film "Liebelie" is surprisingly work seeing. With no attempt at novelty or sensation, it is the completely natural sort of thing that seems to be a monopoly with the German producers...
...supported by competent photography and direction. They harmonize with the general simplicity and form a background for it, never intruding. There is a really beautiful scene of a sleigh ride among snow-covered firs. Infact, the only fault the reviewer could find with the picture was that the film is badly scratched...
...modern and efficient as the liquor trade is the aim of the Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy...
...some thousands of years hence, a group of archaeologists searching for traces of the lost civilization of America should unearth a few reels of "Career Woman," they would undoubtedly come to the conclusion that twentieth century standards of entertainment in this country were at an all-time low. This film, starring Claire Trevor, is a rambling account of a girl who wants to be a lawyer. The piece goes on and on, finally stopping of its own accord when it becomes tired...