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Little Miss Roughneck (Columbia), a mild satire on Hollywood parents, exhibits another show-struck girl, Edith Fellows, making the most of her opportunity when allowed to do a number at a benefit. Later, en route to Hollywood, she inflicts her version of Gunga Din on the passengers of a transcontinental train. Encouraged by a too-ambitious mother (Margaret Irving), her brattishness persists until a gentle Mexican (Leo Carrillo) brings out the latent good in her. Best performance: Mr. Carrillo's dependable spick...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood, cast him in a tedious epic called Sins...
...scenes showing Toomai and Kala Nag stealing melons and Toomai making Kala Nag take a bath (see cut), magnificently climaxed by the elephant hunt, superbly photographed throughout, Elephant Boy is the first of three forthcoming Kipling pictures. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The elephant hunt in the picture is a real one; it included a herd...
...Imperial England was bled until there were such things as a Labor Cabinet, a British General Strike, a Depression and 11,000,000 British votes for the League of Nations, which signifies nothing if it does not signify the passing of Imperialism. When this has passed, what becomes of Gunga Din, of Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd and of the Road to Mandalay...
...eternal appeal does not lie with these adventures of the body alone. Kipling and Keyserling have done as well with India. It is when Yeats-Brown travels off the beaten-path of the senses that Kim and Gunga Din pale into insignificance. Strange stories have come out of the East for years; the cobra-enchanter, the sacred animals and the mystical rites along the Ganges, the horrible parade of the Juggernaut in the Temple Square. The Bengal Lancer wondered about these. And wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru...