Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like other recent Chatterton pictures, Journal of a Crime indicates that stolen property is often difficult to sell. Ever since Warner Brothers took Ruth Chatterton from Paramount in 1931, they have found her a serious problem. A solemn, intelligent actress with searching eyes and plaintive voice, she lacks the qualifications for the rapidfire melodrama or the garish musicomedy which are now Warner specialties. Pictures like Journal of a Crime suit Ruth Chatterton better than they suit the tastes of audiences...
...strings of Lehman Hall. To the undergraduate, Arthur L. Endicott has been the symbol of an impersonal and mechanical bureaucracy, a vague object for resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character out of Harvard's past. Like his ancestor, the Puritan governor, Arthur Endicott has ruled his domain with an iron hand little softened by words of tact. The very air of an incongruously well-appointed...
Inside the cathedral was tremulous with the yellow light of a thousand candles. Years dead is Belgium's great Cardinal Mercier, but his successor, Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, sang the Solemn Requiem Mass in sombre black and silver vestments. Though it is a strict rule of Belgian court etiquet that women shall not appear at state funerals, neither etiquet nor prostration from grief could keep gentle Queen Elisabeth from her husband's funeral.† Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun...
...second. Villains of the piece are the police who maltreat Playwright Wexley's Cookesville boys in a brutally realistic first act; the race-prejudiced crowd in the courtroom; two foul-tongued prosecuting attorneys who denounce "Jew money from New York." After listening to Lawyer Rubin's solemn summation, the jury goes off-stage to bring Playwright Wexley's last curtain down with a burst of obscenely scornful laughter. A better playwright than most polemists, Playwright Wexley lost his temper in They Shall Not Die. Yet somehow his journalistic vehemence does not ruin his play. Handsomely mounted...
...ALTAR IN THE FIELDS-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($2.50). Last week nobody was much excited to learn that Ludwig Lewisohn had written another novel. A humorless and determined individualist, Author Lewisohn has gradually accustomed most U. S. readers to treat his output with restrained respect. A solemn harping on the string of self-expression, An Altar in the Fields tells nothing new about Lewisohn, life or love...