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...which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into the group of quick, journalistically written thumbnail biographies which Warners have made their specialty for the last two years. Smart dialog by Manuel Seff and Niven Busch help make it adult entertainment...
Kindliness and fortitude are so seldom to be experienced in this world today, that to have them vividly brought to us in the person of Mrs. Barry is an unforgettable pleasure. Mr. Niven has written a touching, well modulated masterpiece in depicting the homely vicissitudes of a woman of simple means and charitable disposition. She lacks education, but she possesses a fund of knowledge of the things which are secured spontaneously through the heart, rather than through the more prosiac mind...
...Niven does remarkably well in keeping the story above sentimentality. His style depends considerably on the fineness of his use of dialogue and his characters speak only for themselves. He builds a story somewhat reminiscent of the work of Katherine Mansfield. However, his quality goes deeper than hers--he has, as she had, a gift for extracting the essentials of a little episode so that every word secures a worth and richness of effect seldom obtained in literature. The loving kindness of Mrs. Barry, the course, unskillful ministrations of her neighbors, the youthful vitality of Neil combine to form...
...Amos Niven Wilder, poet, brother of Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has spent $200,000 trying to do so without success; whatever Warner Brothers spent on this picture can safely be listed on the wrong side of the ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness in the story itself. Trying to show how a young officer of the Tsar's guards faces the issues of the revolution by marrying one of his servants (Nancy Carroll) and becoming...