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KNOCKOUT - Charles Francis Coe - Lippincott ($2). Fight-addicts may enjoy this saga of an honest boxer who keeps his heart pure in a crooked game...
...Paramount and Fenway we find two unexciting films, namely, "Brides Are Like That", a harmless and mildly amusing romance and "The Country Beyond", a saga of the Canadian Mounted writen by James Curwood and just what you'd imagine. Conrad Veidt stars in the Fine Arts presentation of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", the ancient Jerome K. Jerome allegorical story telling about the bringing of sweetness and light into the lives of a bitter boarding house crew; for those with a quaint sense of humor...
BEYOND SING THE WOODS-Trygve Gulbranssen-Putnam ($2.50). The saga of a powerful Norwegian family which dominates the countryside, partly through superstition, partly through usury. Skill in narration, a lyric prose, an interesting milieu, save the novel from childishness by a narrow margin...
From the opening blare of trumpets (8.20) to the final tear-laden fadeout (11.29) the picture maintains a level of fabulous lavishness which bears aureate witness to the accepted rumor that the Goldwyn boys spent $500,000 an hour on this supreme effort. The saga of Ziegfeld commences at the Chicago World's Fair, where the master is offering the muscles of the mighty Sandow. Even at this early stage in his development "Ziggie" realizes that his main theme is a rhapsody on the theatrical potentialities of the female form. He brings Anna Held to America and makes...
...seats. This week the orchestra will sound out the rolling E flat chord which introduces Das Rheingold. The dwarfed, matty-haired Alberich will snatch the gold from the river's depths only to be tricked by the gods. Thus the way will be paved for the colossal musical saga which tracks through a dozen byways, involves a dozen innocents, reaches a peaceful ending only, when greed has completed its own destruction. Great credit for the current Wagner vogue is due Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the mighty-voiced Norwegian who last winter won an overnight success as Isolde, went...