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...Benton. a miserable bookkeeper in a London emporium named Service's. His employer sacks him for general incompetence and inappropriate geniality. When Benton has retired to his suburban cottage to start a baking business with his wife and children, the picture goes into the family affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children...
...muddled, but like everything else in which one of the Barrymore brothers appears it has grand moments. Typical shot: Barrymore telling his wife and children how cut up Gabriel Service was about discharging him. Reunion in Vienna (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids all the obvious pitfalls into which an adaptation of a brilliant stage comedy can easily fall. It remains wise and humorous, retains the air of spontaneity which translations so often lose. People who saw Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's play may be amused by the way John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely...
Turning to the screen we find "Cavalcade," at popular prices at the Metropolitan while "Gabriel Over the While House," Katherine Hepburn in "Christopher Strong," and "42nd Street" are still in the immediate vicinity. "Cavalcade" and "42nd Street" illustrate the increasingly effective use of musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World...
...adjourns Congress, makes himself dictator. Molested by a tycoon gangster, he places his secretary at the head of a corps of Federal police in armored cars. They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture the invisible presence of the Angel Gabriel is felt no more strongly than that of William Randolph Hearst whose cinema company made the film. President Hammond holds a debt parley on a yacht, gives visiting diplomats a display of U. S. navy planes sinking an obsolete warship. Then he proposes that Europe pay its debts in full...
Spectacles which appeal primarily to patriotism-an emotion lately revived by the cinema-need to be timely, spectacular and sentimental. Because Gabriel Over the White House is all three, it is likely to be one of the most talked-of pictures of the year. By a stroke of good luck for the producers, several measures like those instituted by President Hammond have already been effected by President Roosevelt. The cinema omits several episodes dealing with such abstruse matters as gold and banking included in the book which a British brigadier general named Thomas F. Tweed wrote anonymously last February (TIME...