Word: screen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intact for their grand reunion later. Success or failure of such a picture as The Sisters depends largely on how well it evokes the mood of an era which lies within memory's horizon for many people who will see it. In this respect, Milton Krims's screen play, Anatole Litvak's direction and the acting of Flynn and Miss Davis are eminently successful. A trifle pretentious in its narrative manner, The Sisters has the salient virtue of making it clear that in 1908 that sleepy year seemed just as fateful as 1938 does...
...cash and bought himself the 107-year-old Republican Philadelphia Inquirer, the Main Line Old Guard hardly knew who he was. Most of Moe Annenberg's millions had come from publications rarely seen in Bryn Mawr: Daily Racing Form, New York Morning Telegraph (a sporting sheet), Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories. His immensely profitable Nationwide News Service, Inc., which supplies sporting and racing news by telephone to all comers including bookies, was not as well known to men who haunted stock brokerage offices as to those in poolrooms. Even more disconcerting was the legendary reputation...
...failure of "Room Service" to click well is a fair warning to producers that a good play is one thing, and a good screen reproduction of the same play another. Nothing that Hollywood has purchased from Broadway has succeeded in being a thing of real merit, with the possible exceptions of "The Petrified Forest" and "You Can't Take It With...
...Story of a Cheat (Serge Sandberg). A frowzy middle-aged gentleman sits down in a Paris café, orders a drink and begins to scribble in a notebook. As he writes, he reads aloud or chats, sometimes with the waiter, sometimes with his neighbors at nearby tables. Meanwhile, the screen unrolls aloud the narrative he is telling. It begins as the story of a little boy who was punished, for stealing five pennies, by not being allowed to have mushrooms for dinner. The mushrooms were poisonous toadstools and his whole family of eleven died that night from eating them...
...Connecticut weekend party comes Invader Cindy Lou Bethany (Helen Claire), a Georgia Congressman's daughter and blood kin of Culpeppers, Covingtons, Albemarles. She comes with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and nail the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national bestseller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Prattling and coy, she comes, with a hoopskirt, a guitar and blatant pride of race, smack into the presence of the most brutal wisecrackers and merciless limbchoppers in Yankeedom...