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...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...
Awarded. To President Frank Jerome Tone, 66, of Carborundum Co., father of Cinemactor Franchot Tone: $1,000 and a medal; by the American Electrochemical Society, for distinguished work in electrothermics (applications of heat-from-electricity, as in electric furnaces in which carborundum is fused...
...closely together. In ability they are not evenly matched. Lee Strasberg is probably the most distinguished and experienced director of the Group. Luther & Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Alexander Kirkland had theatrical names before they joined the Group, are its top-flight actors. Kirkland's substitution for Franchot Tone is the only important change in the Group's lineup since it started. From opulent Hollywood, Actor Tone recently sent back $5,000 to help his onetime colleagues put on Awake and Sing...
...Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has been justly praised for its spectacular melodrama, picturesquely framed against the forbidding north Indian mountain passes. Very roughly adapted from the successful book of similar title, it proves an exciting bit of pageantry capably acted by a cast which includes Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Dick Cromwell, and Kathleen Burke...
...devotion to the army and love for his son lends coherence to the plot. Richard Cromwell brings to the role of the son a sincerity which overcomes the unpleasant aspect of his part, a sufficient proof of his ability. The reactions of Gary Cooper as the rebellious officer and Franchot Tone as the Blues replacement under fire should provide an estimate of their contributions. Bargaining for the honor of dashing in front of machine guns to destroy dangerous ammunition, Cooper boasts he ran the 220 in 22 see, at McGill. "Where is McGill?" replies Tone...