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Hell Below (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of moods in this picture -engine room realism and chivalric romance-could not be a happy one in any medium. It could scarcely be attempted in anything but cinema, which can be immensely graphic and must usually be sentimental. The narrative of Hell Below concerns a young submarine lieutenant (Robert Montgomery) who falls in love with a woman (Madge Evans) whose husband has been unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes...
...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...
Today We Live (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). On the day that she hears her father has been killed in the War, Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford) makes the acquaintance of an exceedingly tactless young American who has come to England to rent her house. Shortly after she has sent her brother, Ronnie, and her fiance. Claude, off to man a torpedo-launch together on the coast of France, she finds out that she really loves not Claude (Robert Young) but the American, Richard Bogard (Gary Cooper). The troubles that arise from this situation are what you might expect in the first...
When slim little Irving Thalberg, production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, worked himself into the nervous break-down which sooner or later overtakes most cinema executives, Hollywood wondered how MGM would fill the gap. Thaiberg's hand had been in all the pictures which for the last five years have made MGM Hollywood's most successful company. His partner, MGM's dignified Vice President Louis Burt Mayer has, since hiring Thalberg in 1922, concerned himself more with studio finance than production...
...White Sister (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a talkie production of the picture which with Lillian Gish and Ronald Cowman in the important parts was vastly successful in 1923. Now-partly because Helen Hayes has the Gish role, partly because the action has been localized at the Italian front in the War-it gives the impression of being a minor-league Farewell to Arms. Angela Chiaromonte (Helen Hayes) is the daughter of an elderly Prince (Lewis Stone) who has made arrangements for her to marry a dull young man. Instead of complying, she hobnobs with a young aviator named Giovanni (Clark...