Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reclaimed His Head (Universal). Audiences who remember Claude Rains in The Invisible Man may find the title of this picture misleading. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is not a sequel to The Invisible Man but a gloomy war film, in which Rains impersonates a hapless journalist named Paul Verin, who is harassed by shyness, poverty and the irony of fate. The title is a pretentious figure of speech. Properly speaking, Verin reclaims not his head but his brain. He is hired to write pacifist articles which make his employer famed. When the employer, after having betrayed Verin by entering...
Small change compared to the wage scales of a film company like Loews' were the other salaries listed by the SEC. Republic Steel upped President Tom M. Girdler from $117,420 to $129,372 per year, two vice presidents from $58,700 to $64,600. President Edwin Madison Allen of Mathieson Alkali worked for $86,700 in both 1933 and 1934. Donald L. Brown of reorganized United Aircraft will be paid $45,000. Salaries substantially the same in both years included President Walter Cabot Baylies of Boston's Edison Electric Illuminating: $32,000; Vice President Theodore D. Crocker of Northern...
...fine array of talent has been gathered up to produce the film's musical numbers, but the combined efforts of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, Burton Lane and Harold Adamson, and Irving Berlin failed to produce a number that we are aching to hear again. Best tunes of the lot: "When My Ship Comes In," "With Your Head on My Shoulder...
...enjoy detective stories in the style of Mr. Jacob Van Dine will find pleasure in "Une Etoile Disparait," presented by The French Talking Films Committee, Thursday and Friday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The story, written by Marcel Achard, is concerned with murder in a film studio. The victim is the jeune premiere, Liane, poisoned in a hasty drink before her theme song shot. Suspicion moves around the very mixed company, centering upon different members; there are false clues and bogus confessions in the best manner; and the murderer is finally revealed when the death film is reproduced...
...French Paramount Players do themselves justice in this film. Liane is effectively portraited by Edith Mira, who appeared in "Les Trois Mousquetaires"; Rosine, secretary to Liane, is charmingly interpreted by Susy Vernon; and Constant Remy is convincing in the role of Santerre, the melleur en scene. The action never lags, and the technique of introducing brief interludes of comment from the outside world is employed with restraint...