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...Smilin' Through (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a lachrymose, sticky, super-sentimental romance conceived and acted by Jane Cowl for the post-war U.S. of 1919. Cinematized, it was played by Norma Talmadge in 1922, by Norma Shearer in 1932. Its present revival differs from its predecessors in one respect: Technicolor...
...Smilin' through her teeth, redhaired, green-eyed, pink-cheeked Jeanette Mac-Donald, now a matronly 34, plays the dual role of Moony can, a 20th-Century damozel who is shot by a jilted swain (Gene Raymond) at her wedding to Brian Aherne, and Kathleen, the 20th-century ward of the aged bridegroom, who bitterly resents his ward's falling in love with the American son (Mr. Raymond again) of the scoundrel who shot his bride...
...want to know about "smilin' Irish eyes," Miss Helen Dawson, Ph.D, and a National Research Council Fellow, can tell you, but just now she won't talk. Dr. Dawson is now tabulating the results of her five months' research trip through seven counties of Western Ireland, in the statistical bureau of the Department of Anthropology...
...conceived to "make [the world] safe for everyone except those who have saved." Of wealth it warned that "redistribution can easily become confiscation." Its editorial titles seemed to strike Republican keynotes: "Who Is Going to Pay?," "It's Too Much for Me," "Roads to Nowhere," "Human Rights and Lefts," "Smilin' Through," "The Country Needs a Rest." With its huge circulation (2,766,000 for the first half of 1934) the Satevepost became a national mouthpiece of reaction against the New Deal...
...Barrett's of Wimpole Street." The three stars are all winners of the greatest honor in motion pictures--the Annual Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences--and the stage play had a three year run. Frederick March and Norma Shearer, who played together in "Smilin Through," are the lovers Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Miss Shearer's emotional depths build up the play considerably and march carries out his part to perfection, although it seems as though the real Browning was not as blustering as the play would have him. Charles Laughton, as Elizabeth's domineering...