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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strangers May Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is one of those handsomely staged, well-acted, rather silly productions which confound critics who try to reveal their silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale...
...those who, while young, were dragged kicking and screaming past the Monkey House, and now spend their moments of adult leisure in front of Abercromble and Fitch show-cases, we recommend "Trader Horn", now showing at the Majestic Theater, as an effective tonic. The latest Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer "miracle picture", filmed in the heart of Darkest Africa at the risk of life and bank account, includes superb sound studies of savage men and beasts, who have entered into the spirit of the thing with a gusto which must at times have embarrassed the camera...
Inspiration (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The decadent, artificial perfume which, springing from La Dame Aux Camelias, saturated with its nostalgia the boudoir literature of four decades, is revived strongly for Greta Garbo's third talking picture. She is a studio model, mistress of many men, who falls in love with a colorless young socialite. Robert Montgomery leaves her when he finds out about her bygone irregularities, but after a break he takes her back again. When his family decides that it is time for him to marry, Garbo goes away. The way this tale is told...
...Bachelor Father (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A bachelor, lonely in his old age, invites his illegitimate children of various nationalities to come and live with him. One of them-the one he feels is most like him-turns out to be not his daughter after all. Such components were all right when Belasco produced The Bachelor Father on Broadway but they offered a grave moral problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That great organization rose brilliantly to the emergency, however; they changed the bachelor into a married man. The comedy has lost some of its pace, but the circumloquacious dialog...
Trader Horn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The longest, bitterest journey of Trader Horn ended last week at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. In 1928, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sent two actresses, two actors, Director W. S. Van Dyke and some technicians on an eight-month junket into Africa to shoot the most capricious game of all?an idea. Alfred Aloysius Horn, 75, all-talking hero of Ethelreda Lewis' book, was their theme. Jungle hardships were ameliorated by an ice plant, good food-&-drink, comfortable housing. The real difficulties developed when the film arrived back in California. It would not jell; the script...