Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those words, written in Explorer Scott's diary not long before he perished in March 1912 on the Ross Ice Barrier, stirred Englishmen more than any triumphant saga would have done. They are engraved on the statue of Scott made by his widow and unveiled after the War in Devonport, the Devonshire town where he was born...
...four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...
...Columbia production "Twentieth Century," at RKO Keith's this week, affords an excellent antidote for Divisional post mortems or a pleasing apertif for finals, as the case may be Based on the show hit "Napoleon of Broadway," this saga of the stage was dressed up to Hollywood style by Ben Heeht and Charles Mac Arthur who gave it new lines, exaggerated the heroic, and knew John Barrymore would have the lead. Unlike its predecessors of the "Shanghai Express" variety, "Twentieth Century" has no villains, bandits, or languishing females, but is graced with a frantic, egomaniae producer (John Barrymore), his irrepressive...
Twentieth Century (Columbia). This febrile saga of a journey on New York Central's crack train was a Broadway success last year (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg...
...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...