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...AFRICAN WITCH-Joyce Gary- Morrow ($2.50). Long, semirealistic novel laid in British West Africa, revolving around the defeat of a handsome, English-educated native chieftain in his attempts to improve the lot of his people. Witchcraft, riots of native women, the governing methods of the British, a decapitation, the inept assistance of a sentimental English lady, contribute to his failure...
Arrest That Woman (by Maxine Alton; A. H. Woods, producer). A large but dowdy production with a numerous but inept cast, this unprofessional melodrama appears to be merely a rough preliminary sketch pointed toward a later and more finished film version. Several of the roles are undertaken by minor Hollywood actors, whose performances are about on a par with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send...
Hearts Divided (Warner) turns out to be a particularly inept little costume piece in which Marion Davies proves unable to furnish first-rate entertainment even when directed by Frank Borzage and surrounded by such players as Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains. Miss Davies is Betsy Patterson, a belle of old Baltimore. Mr. Powell is Jerome Bonaparte, sent over to represent Napoleon at ceremonies surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The picture is notable solely for the Rains characterization. Ham actors long to be Napoleon. Mr. Rains makes Napoleon a ham actor...
Striving vainly to achieve a tone of gay sophistication, Author Caldwell succeeds only in belaboring the reader with a yarn undistinguished in conception, inept in execution...
What Ballet Master George Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great...