Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superbly photographed, "The Prisoner of Zenda" does not devote itself to love and intrigue alone; many scenes are salted with a humor that is as dashing as the theme. anyone with red blood in his veins can find a splendid opportunity for escape from the humdrum ways of a modern world by visiting Loew...
Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, and Robert Montgomery star in the major offering at Loew's this week, "The Bride Were Red." Sprinkled with a pleasant whinsy, the picture displays Mr. Tone in a manner better than usual and the film is greatly enhanced by his presence. Miss Crawford is splendid in the first reel or so, after which her part becomes slightly tedious until the later episodes. Mr. Montgomery plays his ordinary rich-wise-guy-mugger role...
...between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor's name, President Walker with a splendid gesture passed over to the Hollywood camp a box inscribed, "Culver City presents to Hollywood the Culver City-made Selznick International Picture, The Prisoner of Zenda. Before anyone could say Selznick he plunged a shiny hatchet deep in the moist cement. Ten minutes later, The Prisoner of Zenda opened...
Occasionally Poet Jeffers presents splendid glimpses, not of inhuman, but of non-human things...
GOLIATH: THE MARCH OF FASCISM-G. A. Borgese-Viking ($3). One of Italy's foremost literary critics, now a professor at the University of Chicago, contributes a splendid history of Italian culture and politics from Dante to Mussolini-who will certainly not allow its publication in Italy...