Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twentieth Century (Columbia). This febrile saga of a journey on New York Central's crack train was a Broadway success last year (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg...
...strange to say, the evening is not so dull. Despite the provinces of the plot, you become fascinated with the heroic sufferings which manfully struggle to remain respectfully beneath the surface. Clark Gable behaves splendidly; his happy-go-lucky disposition adequately prepares a rather tearful audience for his inevitable tragic end. The truly noble sentiments of William Powell, as Jim, never leave his actions or his future in question. Myrna Loy, struggling with her loyalty, to both men, comes to the only sensible decision. All three behave logically, although the maelstrom of tragedy holds them in its grip...
...also another million-dollar order. And let Mr. Stoddard consider that the war propaganda was largely generated not by those who wanted to buy, but by those who wanted to sell American products. Mr. Stoddard is kind to those men. An embargo on arms would be perhaps "too heroic a self-denying ordinance." He says we should do as much war-business as "we legitimately can," on gold payment, goods-payment, and short-term credits if necessary. And finally, by maintaining a strong armed neutrality, and at the worst "only entering war against those who had grossly injured...
...HEROIC LIVES - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($3). Richard Coeur de Lion, Francis of Assisi, Jeanne d'Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh...
...story centering about the love of Wolfgang von Goethe for the country lass Friederike. Though the music is delightful and the photography well above the average, the film suffers from the usual ill of operettas, an overdose of sentimentality. The love of Wolfgang and Friederike was not one of heroic proportions, and throughout one has the conviction that Goethe's career is more vital to him than Friederike's love, a belief which is incompstible with deep enjoyment of a romance. Mady Christians as the unfortunate heroine adds another to her imposing list of excellent performances...