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...Havas news service. How the Premier of the French Republic ever came to have the notion that it is his right to face French journalistic organizations with such alternatives was this week the burning question. Alluding to the fact that the Premier is a Jew, the Royalist newsorgan Action Française blustered, "Can't we even print that Blum has been circumcized...
...part of Dodsworth is given breadth and depth by Walter Huston, who could act anything. Ruth Chatterton amazes one with her mastery of the character of Fran...
...Sinclair Lewis's most human story expertly dramatized by a first-rate cast. Sam Dodsworth, an American business man but not a Babbitt, marries a wife younger than himself who cannot accept middle age gracefully. Palled with her one kittenish escapade after another, Sam finally refuses to save Fran from her latest scrape, and leaves the attractive would-be girl...
...come forth with such a project as his proposal to promote world peace through voice culture, since animosity arises when unpleasant tones are heard. Mr. Boguslawski likes to toy with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water. Percy Grainger slaps his on his kneecaps. Only pianists' stimulant of which Pianist Boguslawski disapproves is whiskey...
...farce as any that has ever led a U. S. censor board to mistake good manners for innocent intentions. Produced at a cost of $850,000-fabulous for a French cinema-and magnificently set by Lazare Meerson, it was distinguished abroad by winning the grand Prix du Cinema Français, being banned in England and Holland. Released as Carnival In Flanders, with English subtitles to explain its French dialog, it last week served as the opening attraction at Manhattan's new Filmarte Theatre, the city's fifth cinemansion dedicated to a policy of showing "outstanding foreign films...