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...boar, under the invigorating influence of a comely sow who makes eyes at him from the next pen, wins the blue ribbon. Wayne, Abel's son, takes revenge on a loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their...
This will give some idea of the conversation in The Half Naked Truth. It is romance between a circus spieler (Tracy) and a cooch dancer (Velez) made funny by the way the dialog, by Bartlett Cormack and Corey Ford, and Gregory La Cava's direction favor the eccentricities of Tracy and Velez. Vaguely derived from incidents in the life of famed Publicist Harry Reichenbach, the story rambles about in the noisy manner of such carnival anecdotes. The spieler blackmails a producer (Frank Morgan), puts a lion in the cooch dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical...
...specialist in horror. He is fond of anything that happens underground or in the dark, especially a murder. He prefers lovers who are physically deformed. He directed the late Lon Chaney in most of Chaney's best pictures. Before that he was a spieler for a sideshow, travelled twice around the world with a carnival in which he acted in blackface. Director Browning must have enjoyed making Freaks. It is one of the most macabre pictures ever filmed and it doubtless contains more misfits of humanity than were ever gathered together in the combined shows of Ringling Brothers and Barnum...
Best current pictures listed (A) according to. merit (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc-Silent French version of history's greatest courtroom scene. The Divine Lady-Love among the frigates. The Spieler-Original story of carnival life. Wild Orchids- Greta Garbo in a bedroom for three. Strong Boy-Promotions of a baggage-smasher. (B) The Wild Party ($42,300, Buffalo, Buffalo) ; Wolf. Song ($34,000, Paramount, Los Angeles); Noah's Ark ($20,000, Aldine, Philadelphia); Weary River ($7,900, Des Moines, Des Moines...
...Spieler (Pathe) is a tense picture of carnival life faithful to its background. From the time a crooked spieler goes to work for a girl-proprietor who is trying to run an honest show, the action moves ahead faster and faster through beautifully dovetailed sequences to a climax in which the spieler, armed with a tent stake, fights his way out of a battle with a mob of "rubes." Fred Kohler, Alan Hale, graceful Renee Adoree and a competent minor cast replace with simple, effective acting the sentimentality common to this type of picture. Best shot: the quiet, sinister...