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...Moto's Warning" comes too late-by that time the audience is seated. The shackling of Mr. Lorre to such over-sterile parts is as brutal as his own Oriental hari-kari...
...Firefly" Jeanette MacDonald dances, sings, impersonates a night-spot entertainer, and incidentally rescues her native Spain from the ravages of the rapacious Emperor Napoleon of France by her Mata Hari sleuthing for the local military intelligence. Spain, as all the world knows, was overrun by Napoleon's armies, and subsequently rescued, amid much tumult and shouting and bombs bursting in air, by the iron Duke of Wellington. Many a time have we seen the good duke's armies cavorting on the silver screen, and never to such advantage as in "The Firefly." We feel, however, as one whose ancestors fought...
...need not seriously impede theatregoers looking for laughs. In Stage Door, as in any Kaufman-directed show, there is something funny going on most of the time, whether it be the saturnine reflections of a girl whose 15-year-old sister is said to be as innocent as Mata Hari, or an all too realistic Times Square bedroom scene in which Terry and her roommate shout good night to each other, blindfold themselves and attempt to go to sleep amid a roaring, flashing hell of metropolitan night life. Swing Your Lady (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson; Milton Shubert, producer...
...celebrated novel, Anna Karenina is intelligent, reasonably faithful and less likely to arouse squeals of affected agony from literary hair-splitters than any other recent effort of its kind. Considered on its own merits as a picture, it is the liveliest in which Greta Garbo has appeared since Mata Hari and should on this account delight millions of cinemaddicts who have never of Tolstoy and could not spell out his stories if they had. Good shot: Vronsky's first glimpse of Anna, through steam blowing across her face from the engine of the train...
...Baron's son recovered, married Suzy in a desperate attempt to forget the spying vampire. Through Suzy's efforts Mata Hari was arrested, convicted; her husband was given the tasty job of commanding the firing squad. Soon after, he went off to the front, was glad to be killed. Suzy, by now indistinguishable from a lady of the ancient regime, married another French nobleman. But this one was bald, had no yearning for vampires...