Word: screening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unmarried (Paramount) will be a titillating title on U. S. cinemarquees, though the picture fails to sparkle on the screen. A new once-over of an old Paramount property about a nightclubstress, a prizefighter and a waif, it features slumbery-eyed Helen Twelvetrees and Western Star Buck Jones without his horse, Silver. Buck without Silver is all ham and no eggs...
...Ballerina" would be worth seeing if there were no one else but a twelve year old brat named Jamie Chariat, one of the few digestable, juveniles on the screen today. There is a great deal more to "Ballerina," however, which makes it doubly worth seeing- some excellent directing which sugar-coats a documentary film on the French Ballet, plenty of good music, some of the best dancing of L'Opera Francais,- all for a couple of bits...
...three Mikados-one hallmarked, one half-swing and one pure Harlem-comes the first Mikado in cinema. Made in England's Pinewood Studios last year by Director Victor Schertzinger and a quorum of first-string members of London's famed D'Oyly1"Carte Company, the screen version of the world's most famed operetta is a full-length, Technicolor facsimile of the original...
Director Victor Schertzinger has long held that the cinema is a better medium for opera than the stage. Composer of the music for The Love Parade (1929), Schertzinger started his campaign to bring opera to the screen when he had Grace Moore trill in One Night of Love, thus setting the fashion for innumerable musical films. Since all works of Gilbert & Sullivan (except The Pirates of Penzance) are in the public domain in the U. S., he could easily have produced The Mikado in Hollywood without paying royalties to the D'Oyly Carte Company, which owns the English rights...
...Gorilla (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the old stage-&-screen shocker about the ape that murders like a man. Competently re-enacted by a good cast, it is made more baffling than its original author (Ralph Spence) intended by the three Ritz Brothers as wacky detectives...