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...Circus, is a religious spectacle, like The King of Kings and The Ten Commandments, of the type De Mille likes best. Before starting it he said he had been waiting for ten years for the cinema to become a vehicle adequate for what he had in mind. Choosing Elissa Landi for the role of heroine, he said: ". . . She combines mysticism and sex with the pure and wholesome. There is the depth of the ages in her eyes, today in her body and tomorrow in her spirit." As is his custom, Director De Mille took his scenarists on a yachting party...
...repertory of every stock company in England since it was first played in 1895, is obvious devotional melodrama. Nero (Charles Laughton) orders his lieutenant, Marcus Superbus (Fredric March), to clear Rome of Christians. While doing so, Marcus falls in love with a Christian girl named Mercia (Elissa Landi). This makes the vicious Empress Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) jealous. Marcus Superbus tries to persuade Mercia to become a pagan. He fails. Nero wants to forgive her for being a Christian but Poppaea, to save Marcus from what she considers a misalliance, refuses to allow it. Mercia goes to the lions first. Marcus...
...entertainment in Boston this week are distressingly curtailed, what with the theatres dark and "The Woman in Room 13" distributed about the town at the Fenway, Modern, and Beacon. It is a weird "plot pourri" of all the tales handed in at the Fox office this last twelvemonth. Miss Landi tramps along through a divorce court, a murder court, and out to the glaring sunlight of a tennis court where she serves very badly, and back again into prison to see her husband serve for his double fault. It is a grotesque slow-moving business made possible by the wrinkling...
Devil's Lottery (Fox). Simultaneously last week were released Elissa Landi's third novel and her fifth cinema. She had reason to be pleased with both. The book, House for Sale (Doubleday, Doran ?$2.00) is a competent study of a female musician who gave up her career in favor of matrimony and three children. No brilliant achievement for a professional novelist, it is probably the best fiction ever perpetrated by a cinemactress. The picture, Devil's Lottery, less sensational than The Yellow Ticket in which she last performed, is a glib and interesting melodrama in which Miss Landi performs...
...plot of Devil's Lottery is really the invention of one of its characters, Lord Litchfield (Halliwell Hobbs) who, when his horse King Midas wins the Derby, invites all the people who have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills...