Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the loft on the Journal's roof houses 76 cooing Hearstlings. The birds can fly 50 m.p.h. with a 2-oz. payload, are used within a 50-mi. radius. Film negatives and copy written on onionskin paper are placed in aluminum capsules, fastened to the birds' backs with elastic. The Journal used 20 pigeons on the Crempa story, finds them useful in covering ship-news, trials, sports, outlying murders. From ships at Quarantine, 14 miles away, the Journal gets pictures of incoming celebrities in twelve minutes. Rival papers must wait two hours until the ship docks...
...theatrical archeologists with tedious authenticity, by smart alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here, in good faith...
Readers of Mazo de la Roche ought to be warned that Jalna, the current feature at the University, is not an exact reproduction of the book. But for those who can forget their preconceived conceptions of the various characters it is a film both moving and delightful...
...matriarchal acerbity of "gran", the quiet strength and friendliness of Ronny, and the weakness and temperament of young Eden. Before you know it they are all old friends, and their affairs have become important and interesting. To achieve this effect within the first reel or two of a film is quite an extraordinary feat, and one rarely achieved. Not since The Royal Family has it been done so well--in our humble opinion...
There is little originality in the film, and the faults in recording and acting occasionally blind one to the mastery of its direction, the authenticity of its treatment, and the beauty of the scenery. As the cruel governor who tries to make slaves of the Swiss, Conrad Veidt is as impressive as always, but one wishes he were given more opportunity to act. His role is not the most important. William Tell is played by a Swiss whose chief claim to praise is the sincerity of his performance. With its many minor faults, the picture is particularly interesting in these...