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...bizarre rigmarole about a desert scion who kidnaps a dancing girl (Vilma Banky), The Son of the Sheik delighted audiences of its day .chiefly because it permitted the most famed matinee idol in cinema history to play a dual role-the Sheik and the Sheik's son, who is finally rescued by the Sheik from a cutthroat gang. Immediate consequence of its successful revival was naturally a race between proprietors of other old Valentino pictures to get their products to the screen. Also on view was The Sheik (1921), which, as an example of an even cruder school...
Most impressive European turned out to be a tall Pole named Antoni Kolczynski, 20-year-old Warsaw welterweight, who knocked down the idol of Chicago, A. A. U. and Golden Gloves Champion Jimmy O'Malley, so many times in the first round that the referee stopped the match. Awarded the only knockout (technical) of the evening, Kolczynski simply shrugged his shoulders. He had knocked out 37 of his 65 previous opponents, had beaten the champions of Norway, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Finland and Eire...
...with George S. Kaufman on the moderately successful Channel Road (1929), Dark Tower (1933). As contributor to The New Yorker, he wrote with equal vivacity on anagrams and croquet, of crime and parlor games. As author, he wrote books about dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While Rome Burns. As editor, he compiled The Woollcott Reader and Woollcott's Second Reader, 1,100 pages which reveal Woollcott's chief reasons for reading: a good laugh or a good cry. As Town Crier, on the radio...
Therefore, last week when Manhattanites thronged the Metropolitan Opera to hear & see a new Rodolfo, Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura's exploits as Central Europe's cinema idol were no particular recommendation. But they found before the performance was over that a virile figure was not Kiepura's only asset. Tall, handsome Kiepura overacted at times, flopped melodramatically upon the prostrate corpse of Mimi. But his singing was agreeably robust, warm in tone quality. Applauding oldsters agreed that there was nothing the matter with Kiepura's diaphragm...
...favorite comical incongruity, a mousy little man seeking notoriety. A teller in a bank, about five feet two inches tall and an excessively mild and unemotional disposition, suddenly finds fame thrust upon him, for as the supposed killer in defense of a beautiful woman, he is the idol of the nation. The extravaganza with which this plot is unfolded, the surprise twists in the last act and some satirical comment on social climbers, women with pasts, publishers of "pornographic pulp," shysters, bankers, female adolescents who go in for studied moods and histrionics, and male adolescents who are tough...