Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quasi-philosophy or super-sentimentality are inserted. Also on the debit side is a strained and obvious attempt to give the picture social significance. But these faults are not sufficient to weight down an otherwise light and airy fantasy. Roland Young and Billie Burke, whose reputations characterize the film, fit happily into its mood and spirit; while the names of Janet Gaynor and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. look well on the marquee...
...Silk Stocking Parade" and "Film Fun" are the slowest sellers at the Freshman Union news-stand, according to Vincent J. Monti 1G, who runs the stand with Victor E. Gatto...
...current furore over "Grand Illusion," the film now playing at the Fine Arts, makes it fairly obvious that this is an excellent picture. Although it is no epoch-making production, Jean Renoir's slightly idealistic picture is certainly different from the movies produced in our Hollywood. On the average audience this differences has a great shock-effect, and it is this effect that is in turn misinterpreted as the stamp of a superior film...
...That (Mildred Bailey: Vocalion). Cute-lyric-of-the-month (Frank Loesser's, from the film St. Louis Blues...
Although tending to be over-melodramatic in presentation, "Drums," an English film now at the University, nevertheless unfolds an engrossing tale of mutiny and conspiracy among the natives of northwest India. Filmed entirely in technicolor, the picture contains splendid interior shots of a traditional Mohammedan feast, as well as magnificent panoramic views of rugged mountain gorges. One might well protest, however, against the Buckingham Palace splendor of the supposedly primitive British army outposts, strangely out of harmony with the rude country around the Khyber Pass...