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Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vt.) Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times LL.D...
...must usually be sentimental. The narrative of Hell Below concerns a young submarine lieutenant (Robert Montgomery) who falls in love with a woman (Madge Evans) whose husband has been unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes him feel that to do so would be despicable. The lieutenant therefore brutally and gallantly insults his inamorata-to make her hate him-and then dies a hero's death by driving his boat, loaded with explosives, into an enemy fortification-much...
Thus last week was Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount Allenby, introduced by Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times to a U. S. radio audience. Dr. Finley was lunching in Manhattan with Y. M. C. A. men. Lord Allenby was in Jerusalem, the city he delivered to the Allies in 1917. He had returned there to dedicate the finest Y. M. C. A. building in the world, to deliver the first radio speech ever internationally broadcast from Palestine...
...Cosmopolitan). Judson Hammond (Walter Huston) when elected President of the U. S. is a free & easy party politician, addicted to undignified jollities and speeding in his automobile. When he blows out a tire at 98 m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...
...Walter Huston, who got practice for his rôle by playing Presidents Grant and Lincoln in earlier cinemas, tries a little too hard to look like a Hearst cartoonist's idea of a benevolent dictator, but he sounds impressive. A little disappointing is the performance of Franchot Tone-the ablest young stage actor who migrated to Hollywood from Broadway last year-in a rôle which requires him to supply simultaneously romantic interest and the austerity proper to his station...