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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follow Your Heart (Republic). Standard pattern of operatic cinema is the story of a pretty U. S. nobody with a glorious voice who rises from obscurity to a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan. Since Soprano Marion Nevada Talley actually had such a career, it might be expected that her first picture would follow the same trite formula. Follow Your Heart's chief asset is that it does...
Those who remember Soprano Talley fas a cornfed prima donna will scarcely recognize her in Follow Your Heart. On her Kansas wheat farm, whither she retired in a huff in 1929, she has trained down from 146 to 105 lb., is now slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
...fundamental principles ot government finance are exactly the same common sense principles that we follow in the handling of our own family finances. Now, what are these principles? In broadest terms there are four of them...
Main feature of yachting's biggest international event has always been the unsporting controversies that precede, accompany and follow it. Main feature of Skipper Sopwith's challenge was the date he proposed for the first race, July 24. The date suits him because his challenger, Endeavour II, built last winter, has been racing all this summer. It does not suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will...
Trick of the Yean Last year's outstanding audience-catcher was the Bowes amateur hour, acquired by Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from a relatively small station to follow in the footsteps of Comedian Eddie Cantor as nation-wide salesman for Chase & Sanborn's coffee. This season's most unusual big program may be Chase & Sanborn's "Good Will Court" in which downhearted folk step up to a microphone, tell their personal difficulties to municipal judges who pass out good advice. Appeal of this program, which shrewd J. Walter Thompson begins...