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Those of you who have been plodding faithfully to all the recent run of Dietrich-Von Sternberg films only to glimpse the abundant beauties of the actress and have been gratified in that and in nothing else, have a tinkling, silver treat in store for you. "Desire" gives you a Dietrich as beautiful as ever. But the vehicle itself, being an artistic achievement of the first order, delights by its own shimmering sophistication and gives Marlene, and Gary Cooper too, a splendid opportunity...
Until this performance in "Desire" the Blond Venus has given the critics ample justification for their claim that she was merely a handsome woman who ran into all sorts of scrapes and took them all with the same dull look of languorous rapidity. To the mind of Josef von Sternberg, the dead pan was a panacea. But Dietrich under the new regime of Frank Bozarge is free to act, and she dispels with a flash all doubts as to whether...
...least, if not to others, Joe von Sternberg always is the principal character in his screen creations. He indisputably is one of our great directors and certainly one of our greatest masters of the camera. No picture of his fails to be a photographic treat. He has his own style of photography which gets its virility from his daring use of light and shade and true black. He carries his during into each production, each seemingly being to him merely an experiment along another line...
...critics inspected 246 prints by practically all the best known etchers in the U. S., found prices ($4 to $36 a print) reasonable, technical excellence uniformly high and subject matter more than a little dull, despite the presence of a few startling prints by Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg. Quite lacking in false modesty is the society's president, John Taylor Arms. His annual prize for the best piece of technical execution he entrusts to no jury, awards on his own hook to a print of his own choosing for reasons of his own. He gave it last...
...numerous U. S. localities which maintain open-air summer concerts, only the Hollywood Bowl pretentiously labels its performances "Symphonies Under the Stars." One night last week Peggy Wood, Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Corinne Griffith and some 18,000 others heard Otto Klemperer play Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Al-beniz, Berlioz in the Bowl's opener. Conductors to follow during the eight-week season : Willem Mengelberg, Ernest Schelling, Bernardino Molinari, José Iturbi...