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...from concert-hall form-playing the Sonata as an encore. Quietly. Paderewski starts to explain what the Sonata has meant in the lives of the three he played it for. The camera takes over, tells as prosy a potboiler story as cinema has ever cooked up. The Adventures of Robin Hood...
...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
Nearly as incredible as the legend of Robin Hood himself, the picaresque story of Errol Thomson Flynn's 29 years nevertheless boils clown to this-that his mettle has come nearer the heat of genuine adventure than any other of cinema's celluloid heroes. Of the same stout Cumberland strain that produced famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents...
Those holding forth for the Crimson group were Robin Scully '40, Victor C. Vaughn '40, Paul W. Cherington '40, Secretary of the Council, and Ward MacL. Hussey...
Rose of the Rio Grande (Monogram) is foamy, small-budget beer to tease tastes jaded by cinema bubbly. Its frank melodrama is based on the Mexican border legend of a rough-riding Robin Hood of the last century whose caballeros jubilantly bedevil the inept soldiery, pink villains neatly through the heart, are never too preoccupied to sing a rousing song or chuck a cantina girl jovially under the chin...