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...Newhold, P. D. O'Brien, M. A. Olson, G. A. Ott, Gordon Palmer, H. V. Poor, R. D. Reed, Warren Richards, B. C. Riggs, S. H. Rindge, E. L. Rogers, E. P. Rosenbaum, J. B. Rowland, S. C. Salmon, Mark Saxton, F. F. Schimmel, O. M. Schloss, C. G. Sherwood, Roger Silsby, W. A. Smith, T. W. Steptoe, R. N. Svoboda, E. O. Tilton, J. M. Timken, P. A. Unger, G. E. Wesner, H. H. Wilder, J. A. Wilhelm, T. W. Wills, Collier Wright, R. S. Young...
This reviewer entered the awesome Loew's State theatre prepared to sigh for what might have been; to long for the scintillating gleam of a brilliant stage play in the face of a chaos of office-and-bedroom scenes on the screen. Robert Sherwood's sparkling drama of old and New Vienna shall be thought of in terms of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which...
...Reunion in Vienna (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids all the obvious pitfalls into which an adaptation of a brilliant stage comedy can easily fall. It remains wise and humorous, retains the air of spontaneity which translations so often lose. People who saw Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's play may be amused by the way John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely romantic posturings seem tame by comparison, and by the enigmatic inflections Diana Wynyard gives the role which Miss Fontanne made lusty and spectacular. The decor of MGM's expert Cedric Gibbons, the direction...
DEATH in THE WOODS AND OTHER STORIES-Sherwood Anderson-Live right...
...Sherwood Anderson never wrote a good novel, but he has written some first-rate short stories. His bumbling, fumbling, earnest-zany style wanders all over the place when it comes to telling a long narrative: confined to briefer limits it is often a powerful plodder. Though none of the 16 stories in Death in the Woods is the equal of his justly famed "I'm a Fool," three of them are well up to Anderson standard; one ("The Fight") is not only good but (what is even rarer for Author Anderson) funny...