Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lost Lady (First National). That last week's major murder case was named after An American Tragedy was due less to Author Theodore Dreiser's novel than to the moving picture of it. A Lost Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...
Power (Gaumont-British). About the only theme on which the cinema is able to express a definite opinion is the virtue of tolerance. The misfortunes of Jews in Germany supply an apt text for sermons on this subject. An adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger's famed novel Jew Suss, Power lacks both the clarity and the subtlety of its original but it is not, like A Lost Lady, needless vandalism. Angry and outspoken, it derives force from its sincerity and amounts to an elaborate parable of which there are two reels too many...
...picture. The story is of the rise of the Cardinals as a pennant threat, and, in connection with the possibility of the real Cardinals grabbing it, is an extremely pertinent one. However, any similar coases there, and the rest of the picture is much baseball mixed with a mystery, novel in setting but stercotyped in detail...
Loew's State: "Outcast Lady" and "Have a Heart"--The first picture stars Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Hugh Williams, and Ralph Forbes. The story is taken from the popular novel "The Green Hat". The second picture includes Jean Parker, James Dunn, Una Merkel, and Stuart Erwin in the cast...
Uptown: "The Fountain"--This film is based on the famous novel of Charles Morgan. Ann Harding is in the leading role, and she is supported by Charles Morgan, Brian Ahern, Paul Lucas, Jean Hersholt, and Ralph Forbes. On the same program will be "Now and Forever", the same picture which is showing at the Modern...