Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gordon and Revel songs, amiable dialog by a trio of ace screen writers, adroit direction by William Seiter and effortless acting by a sophisticated cast give Stowaway a quality recent Temple pictures have lacked, of simple, unself-conscious charm. Good shot: Randall and valet, having failed to sing Shirley Temple to sleep, nodding when she croons Good Night, My Love...
Made several years ago in Europe Slalom has German dialog in the rare moments when anyone speaks. Most of it is pixie pantomime, easily understood. The two ski teachers dominate the picture are on the screen almost all the time doing everything on skis from Christies to Geländesprünge with extraordinary skill Walter Riml is a ski teacher in the Tyrol Guzzi Lantschner comes of a famed skiing family, took second in the last Olympic slalom. Their complete mastery is pointed up both by their continual burlesque of normal ski technique and by the beauty...
Masses, crowding Manhattan's No. 1 newsreel theatre, the Embassy in Times Square, behaved as follows at sight on the screen of: Prince Edward (cheers); Mrs. Simpson (cheers) ; her first husband Commander Spencer, U.S.N. (boos); her second and present husband Mr. Simpson (cheers & boos); the Archbishop of Canterbury (BOOS); new Crown Princess Elizabeth (boos); new King George & Queen Elizabeth (boos!); Prime Minister Baldwin (PROLONGED CATCALLS AND BOOS!); King Edward & Mrs. Simpson bathing in the Mediterranean (CHEERS...
Married. Doris Dudley, 18, stage & screen actress (End of Summer, A Womat Rebels), daughter of Manhattan Critic Bide Dudley; and Jack E. Jenkins, Beverly Hills restaurateur; in Yuma, Ariz...
...first place the story is a mere chronological biography possessing practically no dramatic force, and in the second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned down for at least half the picture to a dismal half-whisper that resembles the sound of a fly trying to crash through a screen door. It is not a great sin for such as Laughton and Korda to fail; the evil lies in refusing to admit the failure and claiming for it new heights of cinematic excellence. It must be said in justice to "Rembrandt" that costuming and photography are excellent, as they always...