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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better known for her novels (She Walks in Beauty) than for her dramatic works (Big Night). And she is pitiably outclassed when compared to such Guild comic artists as S. N. Behrman, Ferenc Molnar and George Bernard Shaw. Although Jig Saw is utterly without significance and woefully short on plot, it abounds in witty if ungermane lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...other full length film on the dockets is a saga of the late war, entitled "Keep 'Em Rolling" with Walter Huston taking the lead. The story is of a man and his horse who encounter all the rigors of an army camp and a war life. The plot is over sentimental and rather illogical, and Mr. Huston fails to come up to his usual high standard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...plot is more realistic than usual, for the reform administration in New York permits the portrayal of an honest District Attorney. Possibly this is too rapid an advance, for the story concerns the life of two boys, close friends ever since they were rescued from a shipwreck. Both are essentially fine persons. But while Jim's code allows him honestly to mount the ladder of democracy to the position of District Attorney, Blackie finds that his fits best into the under-world. They remain friends, however, and not even the delicate time when Miss Loy changes her affections destroys their...

Author: By A. A. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

...strange to say, the evening is not so dull. Despite the provinces of the plot, you become fascinated with the heroic sufferings which manfully struggle to remain respectfully beneath the surface. Clark Gable behaves splendidly; his happy-go-lucky disposition adequately prepares a rather tearful audience for his inevitable tragic end. The truly noble sentiments of William Powell, as Jim, never leave his actions or his future in question. Myrna Loy, struggling with her loyalty, to both men, comes to the only sensible decision. All three behave logically, although the maelstrom of tragedy holds them in its grip...

Author: By A. A. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

...indeed a tribute to Miss Bergner's talent that she could manage to be impressive while struggling against the combined efforts of a hackneyed plot and a supporting cast which spent most of its time in striking poses which, though they were undoubtedly Teutonic to the core, removed most of the life from the proceedings...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/11/1934 | See Source »

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