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...intimacy, given information to an enemy agent. Emotional tensity is emphasized by dropping articles on the floor: a champagne glass, later a revolver. Presently Pom-Pom is vindicated. Worst shot: a group of flyers teasing Farrell when they find him writing a letter to his girl. The vogue of Greta Garbo has been such that no important company considers itself to have a quorum of talent without one blonde actress capable of narrowing her eyelids inscrutably and talking alto. Elissa Landi is obviously the Fox Garbo. She also possesses important qualifications which are her own. Her face is attractive from...
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...
...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 her own with any of the company's other actresses, not excepting Greta Garbo. She is a salesgirl sent to jail for shoplifting by the falsely pious testimony of her employer. When she gets out she marries her employer's son for revenge. Best shot: Miss Crawford in a white evening wrap...
...much heralded Marlene Dietrich has at last come to Boston in Josef Von Sternberg's latest production, "Morocco". This new German star appears to be a combination of Greta Garbo and Evelyn Brent in more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...
...primitive, remade silent pictures, but incisive, necessary words, labelling and shaping the main currents of the plot. Marlene Dietrich talks with hardly a trace of accent. In her first U. S. picture she lives up to the elaborate publicity issued for her. Her curiously combined resemblances to Greta Garbo and the late Jeanne Eagels do not lessen the impact of her own personality. Gary Cooper's expert underacting as the hero and Adolphe Menjou's return to the U. S. screen are other reasons for Morocco being a good picture. Menjou has a comparatively unimportant role as a disappointed...