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...Untarnished Idyl. The first movie magazine appeared in 1909. All copy in an inexpensive little throwaway called Motion Picture Stories was supplied free by the studios. In the years before censorship, cinemag pages were triple-dipped in juicy Hollywood scandal. But in the early '303 the tattlers were forcibly tongue-tied; the studios threatened to deny them access to the stars. Says one publisher: "We were licked. Without Jean Harlow stories alone, we'd have lost 10% of our circulation...
...Seashore Idyl. In Manhattan Beach, Calif., a sea lion, devoted to Mrs. Ruby Bigelow after she had ungummed his tarred-up jaws, flopped after her all over town, took no notice when she repeatedly led him to the ocean and nudged him in, finally wore down her resistance, became...
Random Harvest (M.G.M.) is a first-rate film made from James Hilton's second-rate novel of the same name. This English idyl brings together two veterans of Hilton films-Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Ronald Colman (Lost Horizon). Random Harvest, which is better than either of those, is distinguished by 1) a moving love story, 2) the unveiling of Miss Garson's interesting legs...
Bambi is the brown-eyed, white-scutted fawn of Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops...
...Happiness, by Therese Lewis and Lota Kriendler, for Helen Hayes. A cleverly strung idyl of parting and reconciliation, just what was in the tea leaves for Actress Hayes...