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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...
...Heavenly Night (Goldwyn). The combined talents of Authors Louis Bromfield and Sidney Howard, both raucously advertised as Pulitzer Prizewinners, have produced a story which will make cinema seers feel content that winners of the Nobel and other awards have not so far been hired to compose operettas. It is about a flower girl who, masquerading as a notorious cabaret entertainer, wins the love of John Boles. The singer (Lilyan Tashman) has been exiled by the police from Budapest to the familiar Hungarian musical comedy steppes?a district of palaces, vineyards, and extemporary duets. Going as substitute, the flower girl...
Paid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Except for its concluding intricacies, worked out along lines immemorially established for stage police departments and district attorneys' offices, Paid is an effective program piece. It is Bayard Veiller's old play, Within the Law, modernized by Charles MacArthur as a vehicle for Joan Crawford. For some reason, principally because of her success in party-pictures and because there are already more than enough emotional actresses in the picture business, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has shown some reluctance in letting Joan Crawford play straight parts. This policy is puzzling because she can hold...
Like Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., last week tennis's William Tatem Tilden II formally announced his retirement from amateurity. Also like Golfer Jones, he has signed a film contract (with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In his open letter to the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, said he: "I shall never coach professionally, but I will always be glad to help any person in the tennis ranks whom I care to. . . . The future Davis Cup Team . . . should be built around [George] Lott...
...Moon (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Enlarged and changed, this operetta of the Broadway stage of year before last has been made into a vehicle for Metropolitan-trained Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett each of whom has done well separately in singing pictures. It is a plotty affair in which a Russian princess and a lieutenant make love against a background of soldiers thoroughly trained in quartet and ensemble work. Undaunted by the Presence of his superior officers, Tibbett pursues Miss Moore at a ball given in her honor by her fiance, the Governor, and in consequence is sent to an outpost...