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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Auguste Renoir's three sons are all living, moderately prominent. Pierre, the eldest, is a well known actor of the Théâtre I'Athénée, despite the paralyzed hand that the War gave him. Jean, the second, is a cinema director, lately produced a well reviewed film of Madame Bovary. Blond Claude, familiar to all art students in dozens of child portraits, is the plump & prosperous owner of the largest cinema in Antibes, L'Antipolis...
...Renoir, by Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Minton, Balch ($5). * One, known to all Cagnes-sur-Mer as Lili, married Son Jean Renoir, later became famed as Cinemactress Lili Hessling...
Princess O'Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem...
...nature spectacle, "Sequoia." One is always suspicious of these animal films because for some puzzling reason it seems easier to make the human part of Hollywood's performers behave in more convincing fashion than the allegedly lower species. The stars of "Sequoia" are a deer and a puma; Miss Jean Parker is also much in evidence, but she seems to blend gracefully into the background and doesn't interfere seriously with the goings on. She should have been a W. H. Hudson girl-of-the-wilds with hair in the breeze and so forth, but she hasn't quite thrown...
...gangster-villain. For in this picture Mr. Robinson is both. The story concerns itself with the adventures of a poor, harmless, rabbit-like clerk when it is discovered that he bears an astonishing resemblance to the escaped killer and big shot, Mannion, Both paris are played by Mr. Robinson. Jean Arthur, who has seldom shone very brightly in the stellar firmament of Hollywood, gives an excellent, performance as an easy-going, devil-may-care sort of girl who knows that in the long run the cards are stacked in her direction. In her acting she reveals a sense of humor...