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...colorful plebeians-with James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell impersonating taxi-drivers, reporters, gamblers, shysters. When Zanuck left Warners, Producer Joe Schenck, who recently has been interested in horse racing at Agua Caliente, furnished Zanuck with cash to produce his pictures at United Artists' studio (like Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed to borrow or buy in the open market all the talent he has needed. On Twentieth Century's current payroll are: Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, George...
...First National nonetheless had reason to be satisfied with its advertising trick. Captain Ayers, who saw the picture while waiting for claimants to appear, pronounced it authentic and ingenious, complimented Actor Stone, pointed out that his underlings, unlike Captain Webb's, are forbidden to chew gum. Penthouse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemaddicts who have never been there must have confused ideas about Manhattan. Lady for a Day exhibits the city as a paradise for addle-headed apple vendors. Bureau of Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse...
...Masquerader (Samuel Goldwyn). John Chilcote, M. P.. harassed by drink, drugs, nervous instability and a vampire mistress, one foggy night bumps into an impoverished journalist cousin who looks exactly like him. The next day. too jagged to make an important speech, Chilcote calls on the. cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock...
Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...
...frame for juxtapositional drama of the type that came into fashion with Grand Hotel, a fashionable dinner party is ideal. As a frame for one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last winter was even better. The actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director...