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...best directed pictures of the season is featured this week at Loew's State. Entitled "We Live Again" the movie is an adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel "Resurrection." Casting the newly-found star Anna Sten, of "Naua" fame, in the role of the peasant girl and Frederic March, versatile and capable actor, as the master who first makes for her a disgraceful and wretched existence and then remorsefully and penitently returns to "live again," the director of the picture found two unusual and convincing players to portray the moving story...
Equally well selected were those who played the minor roles and who provided background for the story laid in imperial Russia about 1875. Anna Sten shows ability to act and is something more than a pleasing puppet. Her portrayal is sincere, charming, and natural. Frederic March does well as Dmitri and although at times we are conscious of his acting he turns in a splendid characterization that is moving and realistic. The director makes use of symbolism a great deal which at times is overdone but in some scenes is artistic and adds greatly to the interpretation of the story...
...Live Again (Samuel Goldwyn). When he was considering Tolstoy's Resurrection for blonde and beauteous Anna Sten's second U. S. appearance, Producer Samuel Goldwyn was reminded that it had been made before, with Lupe Velez and Dolores Del Rio. Said he: "It has not been made until I make it." His explanation: both earlier productions failed to stress sufficiently Resurrection's social message...
...extravagant producers interprets Tolstoyan Socialism. Instead of being, like the two previous versions, the old tale of young love reunited, We Live Again is comparatively faithful to its Russian original. In the earlier sequences where young Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March) goes to church with Peasant Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), before seducing her in a greenhouse. Director Rouben Mamoulian allows his fondness for his scene to delay his story. Later, when Dmitri, a bearded patrician in the jury box, again meets Katusha, a prostitute accused of murder, the class antagonism which put them where they are is carefully accented...
That Producer Goldwyn 's version of Resurrection seems sincere is due mainly to his leading lady. When, after a year spent in publicized seclusion, Anna Sten appeared in Nona last winter, critics deplored the picture, reserved judgment on its star. We Live Again exhibits her where she belongs, in Russia, and should cause her to be classed with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich as an importation who deserves all the attention she can get. She speaks better English than she did in Nona, looks a little thinner, acts as well. Good shot: Katusha drinking vodka in jail...