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...SHIPBUILDERS-George Blake-Lippincott ($2.50). Well-knit tale, a little on the sentimental side, about the decline of Glasgow shipbuilding as it hit a humane employer and a group of his one-time employes...
Come and Get It (Samuel Goldwyn) gives Actor Edward Arnold, recently seen as Diamond Jim Brady and General John Sutter, another subject for his full-length screen portraiture of hearty, colorful U. S. types. Lifted this time from Edna Ferber fiction instead of history, the subject is Bernard Glasgow, Wisconsin lumber millionaire. The result, against a background first of lumber camps and small-town saloons, later of early 20th-century urban plutocracy, is an extraordinarily warm and lively picture of one of the few romantic aspects of the U. S. which the cinema has so far neglected...
...rise from head of a timber crew in the north woods to the partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric...
...Piccadilly, in the City, in the studio suburb of Elstree, even in the little dead end of Downing Street, good Britons congratulated each other on a new and imperial prospect for the British cinema. Cause of all this decorous good feeling was a cigar-puffing 64-year-old onetime Glasgow solicitor named John Maxwell, who had just upset the biggest film deal of the year-to make an even bigger one. Mr. Maxwell had as good as bought Gaumont-British, thereby discomfiting two resounding Hollywood names, the brothers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck...
Coming from a family that has long had the sea in its blood (his brother is Novelist Captain David Bone) Muirhead Bone started life as a bank clerk in Glasgow. Drawing, and particularly etching, always interested him. Working alone and teaching himself, he etched two plates, took them down to London to sell. Instantly Dealers Colnogni & Co. recognized the effectiveness of his draughtsmanship, his forceful use of strong black shadows, bargained for all the etchings Bone could make. Muirhead Bone quit the bank, has never since failed to prosper...