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...Because the occasion was in part a farewell to Manager Giulio Gatti- Casazza every effort was made to get him to appear on the stage. But Gatti shuns the spotlight. Instead, cinema pictures of him were shown from The March of Time while the performers sang "Auld Lang Syne." The entire audience rose and clamored for the man who has guided the Metropolitan through 27 years. Gatti stood far back in his box, tears in his eyes, his arm uplifted in the Italian salute...
Liliom (Erich Pommer). This adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's famed play, with French dialog and English subtitles, is notable for two reasons. Its director was Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis). Its star is Charles Boyer, who, after a comparatively inconsequential sojourn in Hollywood, returned to France a year ago and promptly became its leading matinee idol...
...raffish vagabond who considers it beneath his dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema...
...supporting cast is competent. Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood are both convincing as the child's parents. The plot is that of the American child "Wednesday's Child." Do not let this discourage you, however. It is not necessary to be in the proper emotional pitch to enjoy this film. The simple sincerity creates the proper emotional pitch. And whether or not the morbidity of the plot is uninteresting to you, the brilliance of the star, the grace, the charm with which this little girl lives her simple London existence will fill you with the greatest admiration...
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