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...East Hampton, L. I., where he has a fine summer house and a solarium in which he last year offered to wrestle or box with disrespectful commentators. His wealth, position and appearance well qualified Painter Hassam to be the first subject of a series of short one or two reel cinemas, made and released by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to preserve for history the technique, idiosyncrasies and recreational habits of leading U. S. artists...
Renting at $2.50 per reel for domestic projectors, or $5 for commercial machines, forthcoming Metropolitan movies will exhibit Painter Frank Weston Benson, smoking a pipe, and Painter Lawrence Saint, making a stained glass window for the Washington Cathedral. First of the series, released last week, exhibited Painter Hassam beginning his day as befits a rich, successful and not yet superannuated artist, by dictating letters to his pretty secretary, Virginia Rook, who is also his grandniece. Later Painter Hassam is seen showing some sketches to his wife, swimming at Southampton's Maidstone Club, whacking at a golf ball...
...case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench but a loyal devotee, observes his quandary, thinks to solve it. by taking poison. Poison fails to kill her. The last reel shows Clive Brook at home again, solemnly celebrating Christmas with his wife and children. Adapted from Ernest Pascal's novel and play The Marriage Bed, the picture adds up as a sincere and thoughtful if somewhat superficial sermon on the sanctity of marriage and the insignificance of escapade. Typical shot: Juliette Compton...
Screen comedians reach a crisis when they graduate from two-reel comedies to six-reel feature films. Funnymen Laurel & Hardy emerge from the crisis as funny as ever but no funnier. Their incapacities, hilarious in earlier and briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their formula except vulgarity. Funny shots: Laurel & Hardy making friends with the bloodhounds which have been sent to trail them; sing ing "Good morning, dear teacher," in the prison school; going to bed in the same cot so awkwardly that they break...
...even more than this one, which is, on the whole, exciting, interesting, occasionally authentic. Subsidiary stories about humans surround the chronicle of Tommy Boy. His last owner, the gambler's mistress, is deeply attached both to Tommy Boy and to a young gambler who, regenerate in the last reel, informs her stable-hands of the plot which he has helped to formulate. Shots of Elmendorf, Joseph E. Widener's farm near Lexington, Ky.; the 1931 Derby at Churchill Downs; of Vice President Curtis (a onetime jockey) marching down the clubhouse steps; and the sounds of a radio announcer...