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Professor Me k and Kenneth Roberts may not agree on the history of the westward movement, but they can both make it mighty interesting. Harvard's lecture-hall Leatherstocking brings it to life with words alone, but in "Northwest Passage," now at Loew's State and Orpheum, Kenneth Roberts has the help of Technicolor, gorgeous location scenes, Spencer Tracy, and Robert Young. Tracy plays the superman of frontier tall tales, Major Rogers of Rogers' Rangers, who performs stupendous feats of leadership on a handful of parched corn a day. It is a delight and a pleasure to see him take...
...returns are not only diminishing but negative in effect. Those who go to see "Gone With The Wind" expecting "the greatest motion picture ever produced," the "film of the century," and the "apotheosis of the photographic art" are going to be--and have been--disillusioned. But those who approach Loew's with their mental standards set at the usual level will have a rare treat...
...Selznick therefore had to drive as shrewd a bargain as possible with Loew Inc., the parent organization of M.G.M., to whom Clark Gable was under contract. The terms were hard: 1) M.G.M. to have exclusive distribution rights for Gone With the Wind and a sizable interest in the profits; 2) M.G.M. to finance the picture to the tune of $1,250,000; 3) Gable to begin work for Selznick by Feb. 15, 1939. He was not to be kept beyond a reasonable time...
...There's a word for you," says Joan Crawford to Norma Shearer after losing a bitter battle to vamp the latter's spouse, "but they only use it in kennels." This briefly is the tenor of "The Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...
...athletic world were divided in partisan schisms. Eleanor was thoroughly sore and dejected. In her suitcase she had a $1,000-a-week theatre contract contingent on her winning another championship. Then she got off the boat to find herself besieged with theatre offers, among them one from Loew's State promising $3,500 a week...