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...Front Page (Howard Hughes?United Artists). Adolphe Menjou, a peaked and spindling personage suited to tailcoats and equipped with a devilish little mustache, has long been identified in the cinema with the roles of enervated clubmen, sleek playboys, roues too tired to be dashing. Required to impersonate, in The Front Page, a city editor addicted to coarse epithets and unscrupulous behavior, he does so with surprising success, without even removing his boutonniere. In order to retain the services of a reporter who wants to leave town for a more respectable position, he arranges for police to arrest the reporter...
...Actor Menjou makes "son of a ?" sound even more opprobrious and gutter-snipish than the term sounded in the mouth of Osgood Perkins who created the managing editor's part in the Broadway Front Page of onetime Chicago Newshawks Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Items more impolite than any which have previously appeared in cinema are faithfully reproduced from the play's stage version. The scene, which changes rarely through the picture, is the press room of a "Mythical Kingdom's" criminal courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter...
...Adolph Menjou portrays a wealthy man about town with honorable intentions but who is never better than second best in the campaign to win the fair Dietrich. He is an admirable choice for the part of such a suave character...
...accent. In her first U. S. picture she lives up to the elaborate publicity issued for her. Her curiously combined resemblances to Greta Garbo and the late Jeanne Eagels do not lessen the impact of her own personality. Gary Cooper's expert underacting as the hero and Adolphe Menjou's return to the U. S. screen are other reasons for Morocco being a good picture. Menjou has a comparatively unimportant role as a disappointed and aging hedonist, a role he has taken before in slightly different forms, but which he has never done better. Best shot: Marlene Dietrich playing...
Coached by W. B. Cowen Jr '29, who directed the Cercle Francais play last year, "la Grande Duchesse et le Garcon" is the same play that was adapted for the screen for Adolphe Menjou and know simply as "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." The first tryouts will be held tomorrow in Randolph 9. The club gives one play in the Pall and one in the Spring...