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...best directed pictures of the season is featured this week at Loew's State. Entitled "We Live Again" the movie is an adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel "Resurrection." Casting the newly-found star Anna Sten, of "Naua" fame, in the role of the peasant girl and Frederic March, versatile and capable actor, as the master who first makes for her a disgraceful and wretched existence and then remorsefully and penitently returns to "live again," the director of the picture found two unusual and convincing players to portray the moving story...
Franz Lehar's music is practically indestructible, and despite the somewhat symphonic arrangements with undertone crescendos that Hollywood seems to fancy, it is still delightful. Yes, the Merry Widow is still merry, even if she was held over for a week at Loew's State...
...Loew's Orpheum: "Outeast Lady"--Constance Bennett is getting a bit tire-some as the good bad lady who plays with fire until her pretty little fingers get burned. This latest film is not any different from other Bennett attempts and it falls somewhat flat...
...Loew's State: "What Every Woman Knows"--from J. M. Barrie's play. A human drama executed in the best artistic skill by Brian Aherne and the excellent Helen Hayes. Fine serous human drama and a noble work of the cluematic...
...possible in the industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire. He had just got control of Loew's, Inc. for some $75,000,000. He paid another $19,000,000 for a string of Gaumont theatres in Britain without ever looking at them. But he owed all this money in short-term notes. When the market crash caught him amidships, his creditors hemmed him in, charged...