Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melodrama, and makes it into a comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court. In the jury room Mrs. Crane shows that she has a better notion...
...cook is less tractable until Mrs. Crane promises her a job. When she has convinced all of her peers except two, Mrs. Crane arranges a trip to the scene of the crime which proves that she is right as well as rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime actress who, with the disappearance of exterior attractions, has had ample time to perfect her comedy technique. Among other members of the jury are Kitty Kelly, who uses the expression "Go milk a duck," and Ken Murray as a real estate salesman...
There is an agreeable atmosphere about the R.K.O. Keith theatre that lends itself to the enjoyment of the films projected; Leo Weber plays enthusiastically upon the organ, the latest news events and well-selected short subjects are regular features of the program. This week Mae Clark, the appealing blonde who plunged backward out a window away from brutal newshawks, in "The Front Page," and Lewis Ayres, the sensitive and rather bewildered German boy of "All Quiet on the Western Front," play in "Impatient Maiden." But whether the fundamental cause be economic, or merely a reflection of a drabness peculiar...
While the Barrymore tradition in the cinema may be perpetuated by Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore. infant daughter of John, it is even more likely to be continued by the grown sons (Samuel Pomeroy Colt, 22, John Drew Colt, 18) and daughter (Ethel Barrymore Colt, 19) of Sister Ethel Barrymore. John Colt made his debut last year in Scarlet Sister Mary. His sister, wearing blackface, performed in the same play and was this season deluded by the mercenary assurances of George White into joining the cast of his Scandals. This year Ethel Barrymore has been touring the Midwest, to comparatively small...
...wears a square skull, tubes in his neck, scarred wrists, thick-eyelids and an immobile expression) throttles an assistant doctor who is trying to anesthetize him, stumbles angrily away from his operating table, escapes from the mill. After ravaging the country side, he assaults the doctor's fiancee (Mae Clarke) on the morning of her wedding day. Finally there is a monster-hunt by night, in which a whole township and several noisy dogs take part. The monster, squeaking and grunting, is burned to death in the mill...