Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without Elizabeth Bergner in its leading role, "Melo" the current feature at the Fine Arts, would hardly have merited importation from Germany. Subtitled "Die Traeumende Mund" this picture is based upon a dull and utterly outworn plot. Happily married to her devoted violinist, Gaby suddenly realizes that her true love is Michael, another, and vastly superior, fiddler. She is unwilling to leave her husband who is completely dependent upon her, but the strength of her love for Michael gives her no rest. She settles her little problem by tossing herself into a conveniently located river. The film is raised from...
Barbara Stanwyck as "Gambling Lady" successfully plays her way through an unusually complex plot. Her father, Mike, the "last of the honest gamblers," commits suicide, in preference to turning dishonest, when he goes broke. Lady Lee gets a job with a crooked gambling syndicate and despite all temptations, she always plays on the square. While playing poker for the syndicate, on Park Avenue, Lady meets wealthy young Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), who falls for her and pursues her everywhere, even after she goes to jail for the crooked dealings of her syndicate. Finally she marries him, only to find...
...career on "two score years of personal research," which includes a knowledge of the latest diggings among Shakespeare's bones. Perhaps Anne Hathaway really was the beautiful and understanding wife Author de Chambrun portrays: perhaps Shakespeare really was mixed up in Papist alarums and Essex' plot; perhaps he went to Scotland and had a fine clack with King James. But Author de Chambrun, though she is a bright lady and writes a conscientious romance, has not the vivifying touch. Readers will get more of an inkling about Shakespeare the man in reading three of his sonnets than...
...plot and action no one seems to care particularly, but there are spectacles in profusion. Jimmy Durante is apparently past his zenith, his part is comparatively small...
...latest bit of obstruction that the conniving minds of money-in-the-hand barristers can plot to hinder the movements of the notorious snail is the presentation of evidence to prove that Abe Faber is a schizomaniac. Now don't let that word stop you as it must have choked the 12 tried and true men who go to make up the Millen-Faber jury. For uninformed souls, schizomania is a cute little word for that ultra-modern disease, a "split personality." At this point, one thing seems certain. The effect that the mention of this alphabetical masterpiece would have...