Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carolina (Fox). Into this screen version of Paul Green's House of Connelly Director Henry King has put some taste, more thought and much work. With four cameramen, an art director, an architect and Scenarist Reginald Berkeley, he spent six weeks in North and South Carolina last summer collecting local color. Out of 40,000 feet of film shot on this hunt for atmosphere less than 500 got into the finished work. Tobacco markets near Millin, S. C., cigaret factories at Winston-Salem...
Director Eisenstein is, without doubt, one of the cleverest directors in the world today. He transposes landscape, faces, shadows, and even emotions to the screen without resorting to artificial lighting. His plot, however, is a thin one, and his nostalgic idealism may possibly bore one. He sketchily traces the life of a peon in the Diaz regime. The rich land owners are cruel, avaricious, and they love to assault innocent poor girls. The peon was miserable; therefore he revolted, and the Mexico of today arrived. Happiness, and an impeccable army, blooming youth, and more army. A glorious consummation...
...Should Ladies Behave" screen adaptation of that popular comedy, "The Vinegar Tree" that it is line with the recently surging public demand for film invoicing country houses with a great deal of white wainscote and Alice Brads. Unlike its predecessors in the field it is not graced by the presence of Myrna Loy and Ana Harding; this even if you like the acting of that pair, is a fortunate thing, lending variety...
...Trans-Indian Express. First victim is the Governor of Bengal, second the Maharaja of Zunjore. Inspector Prike, sorting suspects, encounters rubies, secretaries, cobras, priests, spies. Village scenes of India, butterflies, toxicologist and acrobat flit past before the inspector brings conclusion to a crime that beat the book to the Screen...
...Aubusson silk tapestry screen...