Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment of a courtroom scene which sets an all-time high for legal realism on the screen arrives when the newsreel is projected with stopped action until most of those suspected are convicted. Now the brothers lose their nerve, shocked by the hate blazing in Joe. Even Katharine, who has just found he is alive, leaves him when he refuses her appeal to save the men he has condemned for his own murder. The judge is about to pronounce sentence when what is left of Joe's conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection...
...fisted, out-of-doors- loving Clark Gable, no man might sympathize more with Lawyer Drinker. Breaking out of a clinch before the cameras with Jeannette MacDonald last week in Hollywood, able Clark Gable declared: "Picturegoers don't want performances in which the actor mugs all over the screen. ... I mean, lingering embraces and prolonged osculation are no longer necessary...
...screen this week is displaying the new Carole Lombard opus. "The Princess Comes Across" and the boards are carrying the weighty burden of a Cliff Edwards hodge-podge. The film is of the light comedy type and tells all about how a fake princess gets involved in murderous doing on a great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz...
...Showboat" in any form will always be welcomed by lovers of Jerome Kern music; it has been revived on the stage at least once, and this is the second screen adaptation. This present attempt has an immense advantage over the earlier one, since the music is played and sung as it should be, and not whanged out on a piano in the orchestra pit. The old favorites are all presented in a very pleasing score, sung by some of the original cast and by the capable Irene Dunne, who is supported by Allan Jones. Jones has an adequate tenor voice...
Billed as the first feature-length musical comedy in the "New Technicolor," "Dancing Pirate" marks a signal advance attributable to the efforts of Robert Edmond Jones, but shows that there is still ground to be covered before the silver screen acknowledges the rainbow with satisfying grace. We liked the story; we have for years. A young dancing master (Charles Collins) is shanghaied to California, where he is soon waltzing his way to freedom and young love's triumph with Steffi Duna, the local senorita No. 1. In spite of the riot of color and considerable good dancing, the absence...