Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace on Earth (by George Sklar and Albert Maltz; produced by the Theatre Union) is another clumsy propaganda play dedicated to the proposition that capitalism is a shell game. Its authors, Yalemen, take a mild, busy college professor (Robert Keith) as their representative of the Right. They persuade him a little toward the Left, involve him with stevedores striking against War, with Communists, with a radical friend who is murdered by the Interests. Tarred with the Left brush, he is crushed by his onetime comrades of the Right. His college classmates, holding a reunion, dress as cowboys, get drunk, mumble...
...Little Women" R. K. O. Keith's. Jean Parker has a hot potato in her mouth. Joan Bennet is insipid. Frances Dee and Katherine Hepburn are adequate. However, the best sentimental film this year or any other year...
...plot, although trite, is lively enough to provide an evening of more or less semi-conscious entertainment. The acting is not too rosy, but will pass. I do not recommend the vaudeville which accompanies the picture on the stage of keith's Boston...
...29th of October 1929, and titled his book "Only yesterday." Some three years later a movie man out West got hold of a copy and thought he might make a swell movie out of it. Strangely enough, he was almost right. The film at the R. K. O. Keith's justifies much of its ballyhoo...
...Walls of Gold," the current attraction at Keith's Boston, is another story of a woman who married the wrong man for the wrong reason; and there is certainly nothing new in the picture that could excuse the repetition of a plot that was outworn when Mary Pick ford was in the silence. The only claim that the producers might advance in its favor would be that the acting is out of the ordinary. And this is not the case, for Sally Eilers, she of the perfect profile, contributes nothing that has not been seen before and Norman Foster...