Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty King George of Greece, now residing in the Grand Hotel, London, is summoned to Bucharest to answer proceedings for divorce on the grounds of unfaithfulness and desertion...
...Atlantic City's Steel Pier offers not only cinema, minstrel shows, a zoo, a World War museum, a haunted house, a miniature Alpine village. Davy Jones's Locker, Tony Sarg's Blue Grotto etc., etc., but also the Steel Pier Grand Opera Company which performs on summer weekend nights. Managed by Jules Falk, the company is staffed with able second-string singers, who have accomplished the unique feat of singing consistently and successfully in English for the past seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many...
Love Me Forever (Columbia) makes it seem probable that the history of grand-opera cinema will not only parallel that of musicomedy in the movies by sticking to one general story but will even copy the same story over & over. As in Grace Moore's preceding picture, One Night of Love, the heroine of Love Me Forever is a struggling opera singer. In this one Miss Moore meets an underworld cabaret owner (Leo Carrillo) who falls in love with her, contrives to get her a job with the Metropolitan Opera, suffers severe pangs until she gives up the notion...
Under these circumstances, admirers of cinematic grand opera should be pleased to learn that Miss Moore again proves more thoroughly equal to the task of impersonating a sensationally successful grand-opera star than she was to that of being one when she sang at London's Covent Garden before Queen Mary last month (TIME. June 24). Her voice which, in Columbia's recording of it, sounds better than any other in the cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo...
...town pretending to be a representative for an airline. Madge Evans is the girl reporter who regards him with suspicion. Leslie Fenton is the head crook who terrorizes the town's leading banker. Lynn Overman is the secondary G-man whose murder is the signal for the grand roundup in the deserted factory in which police with machine guns exterminate their enemies. Most sadistic shot: gangsters pushing a dinner pail over Overman's ears before shooting him to death...