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...mise enscéne it beats the transatlantic voyage in the cinema's Foreign Correspondent...
...keeping with the present Hollywood urge to return to the mise en scéne, Young Mr. Lincoln had a world première on Decoration Day in the Fox-Lincoln Theatre in Springfield. Two trainloads of guest critics, Hollywood columnists and cinema stars attended, Springfield fat-purses paid $3.30 for orchestra seats, the rest paid the usual 40?. All heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, hired by Producer Zanuck for $6,000, sing America. Only complaint Springfield had against the film was that Abe Lincoln arrived in Springfield not on muleback, but on horseback...
...mise en scene is especially well handled, with motion pictures occupying many of the waits between the play's fifteen scenes. But audiences will forget the pink parachutes painted over the Kremlin, they will forget the startling beauty of the chorines, and they may even forget the tunes. Yet the portrait of a new Babbitt, from Topeka, Kansas, who likes nothing better than pitching horseshoes with the boys, will remain in their minds as a tribute to Mr. Moore and a charming conception of true Americanism...
Graceful, great-nosed John Gielgud had chosen for the background of his fine impersonation some rather sombre, common place sets and costumes of Stuart England. Equally commonplace is the gaudier Howard mise en scène which represents 11th Century Denmark. The two productions, however, are separated by more than five centuries of decorating history...
...Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this is handled with the worst direction, the most inexpert acting (including that of Miss Ulric) and the shabbiest mise en scene now observable on Broadway...