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...sigh for what might have been; to long for the scintillating gleam of a brilliant stage play in the face of a chaos of office-and-bedroom scenes on the screen. Robert Sherwood's sparkling drama of old and New Vienna shall be thought of in terms of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which combines the brittle wit of Oscar Wilde with the mellow sentiment...
...Gabriel Service was about discharging him. Reunion in Vienna (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids all the obvious pitfalls into which an adaptation of a brilliant stage comedy can easily fall. It remains wise and humorous, retains the air of spontaneity which translations so often lose. People who saw Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's play may be amused by the way John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely romantic posturings seem tame by comparison, and by the enigmatic inflections Diana Wynyard gives the role which Miss Fontanne made lusty and spectacular. The decor...
...Hathaway Rogers, Farmer, Cotton, Rosenberg, c.pt. c.pt., Davis, Scott Gunlach, Gardner, pt. pt., Harrington, Chase Angle, Holsapple, Amberg, 1d. 1d., Angelis, Pierce, Tofsky Feins, Murphy, 2d. 2d., Buckley, Moore, Horn Housch, c. c., Mathers, Hayes LeRoy, Way, DeWolfe, 2a. 2a., Bisserofsky Graziano, Duffield, 1a. 1a., Paterno Owens, Lunt, c.h. c.h., Muchnick, Bert Tucker, Redshaw, Skerpan, i.h. i.h., Donnao, Winnick...
...come back into favor. From last year's high of 453, the American Kennel Club's dachshund registration has now leaped to some 2,200. The dog's droll appearance and manners, its intelligence, loyalty and hardiness have won it friends. Some famed dachs-owners: Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, Otto Kahn, Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, Katharine Cornell, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Tauber, Dorothy Parker...
...spite of makeup which gives her eyelids a furry look and her old tendency to read her more dramatic lines as though she were giving a schoolroom recital of Elektra, Actress Fontanne manages to be conspicuously charming in a role which is not a paragon of lucidity. Actor Lunt is at all times expertly droll, although his parts in The Guardsman and Reunion In Vienna appear to have permanently endowed him with a Central European accent. Actor Coward, particularly when he is imitating a butler on a telephone and giving an interview to the Press, is, if possible, more suavely...