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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exploitation matter for the picture states that it was made at places in the desert where the temperature was "never less than 120°." It is too bad that this heat, or something, made Director Walter Summers, known for his competent war newsreels, mess up this opportunity. The characters are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The Marriage Playground (Paramount). What happens to children in families that have a penchant for divorces was the subject of a novel (The Children) by Edith Wharton which this picture reproduces faithfully. Mrs. Wharton's professional, knowingly maternal sympathy, her bookish characters, even the glossy feeling of her style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Die Meistersinger (German). It is hard to tell whether the story of the cobbler and the city clerk of Nuremberg who loved a girl who loved neither of them would have been better or worse if Wagner's immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Shrewd rather than witty, this comedy of marriage succeeds in being entertaining because Edwin Burke, from whose play it was adapted, sensibly avoided the deeper implications of his subject. The idea of it is that married people get along better if they are not in love with each other. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Louisa Miller was the name of a prize-winning Holstein cow now deceased, which once belonged to President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Louisa Miller, spelled in the Italian way without the o, is the name of an early Giuseppe Verdi opera which last week was raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Luisa Miller | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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