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...tongue-tied torpedo launch lieutenant in Today null a hero-worshipping secretary in Gabriel Over the White House ; and, currently, an aristocrat with indecision. Nonetheless, in parts which have had none of the richness of his stage roles, he has given three performances each of which possessed a shade more than the mechanical competence which Hollywood demands of subsidiary performers. Son of Frank Jerome Tone, president of Carborundum Co., Franchot Tone went to Hill School and Cornell, where he got a Phi Beta Kappa key and ran the Dramatic Club. He played in stock for a year before Guthrie McClintic...
...visit him after the fight, win, lose or draw. . . ." Last week's was the second spectacular heavyweight fight in a month. By beating Sharkey-who won the championship a year ago by a debatable decision in his bout with Max Schmeling and who had previously been considered a shade the best of a mediocre group of U. S. heavy-weights-Monster Camera last week qualified for a bout with Max Baer, who knocked out Schmeling (TIME, June 19). Onetime champion Jack Dempsey, who, as promoter, has an option on Baer, last week began negotiations with Madison Square Garden Corp...
There are only a few moments, like the one in which Jennie tells about Love while fitting her daughter's high school graduation dress, when all this becomes as mawkish as you might expect. Forced to abbreviate, to underline, to shade his story, Director Marion Gering managed to preserve in the picture the calm sympathy for persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter...
Efforts to dress up the theme-by such touches as this or by having Jamil take himself a shade less seriously than the old sheiks used to do-help, not to modernize the picture, but to give it a certain wistful charm. The memory of Rudolph Valentino is still green in Hollywood. In The Sheik (1921) he coined a U. S. epithet and a mint of money for Paramount. The Barbarian is more than a belated imitation; like some of the songs which Jamil sings it is a plaintive serenade, begging audiences not to forget an old favorite. Most inevitable...
...ponderous article, in which verbs go hunting around through vast paragraph sentences for their subjects. E. V. Rostow discusses "A Role for the Middle Classes." One suspects that Rostow might have been a Marxist of some shade or other before March 4, but that he is now caught almost against his will, in the spiritual upswing of Roosevelt's unfaltering "bourgeois" leadership. There is hope for a temporary middle-class ruling class, but whether this is to be enlightened capitalism, Toryism, liberalism, or socialism, the writer dose not make clear...