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Baltic Deputy (Lenfilm). A universally noble cinema theme, of which the most prominent U. S. exponent is Paul Muni (Zola, Pasteur), is the life story of the great-hearted man of science. To be worth his epitaph in Russia, however, a scientist must also hew to the Marxian line. Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema...
They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris); Topper (Roland Young, Gary Grant, Constance Bennett); Saratoga (Jean Harlow, Clark Gable); The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway) ; Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna...
...Muni considers himself a very funny fellow, earnestly citing quips, practical jokes and an incident in which he jumped into a swimming pool with his clothes on. At his own insistence Warners allowed him to make a comedy called Hi, Nellie in which he played a wisecracking city editor. The experiment was not repeated...
Retirement? Reading scripts, Muni grades them like a schoolteacher, awarding "A1" to those scenes which have good dramatic values and also fit him perfectly. His contract allows him to reject any role he does not like. He rejects four out of five. What his next part will be is not known. With the completion of Zola, Muni began a long vacation. In October he and his wife will start on a trip round the world, avoiding war zones. During shooting of Zola, Muni gave several intimations that Zola's epitaph in the film might mark his own permanent farewell...
This sounded very much like the talk of a man whose zeal for his art impels him to seek a change of atmosphere but will not permanently keep him from work. This impression was strengthened by the fact that Muni has been considering an-other role, that of Haym Salomon, a Jewish banker and friend of George Washington who helped finance the Continental Army. Last week Warner Brothers announced that Salomon would be impersonated by Muni next, but it was shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object...