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...made. From being an extra she worked up to character parts. She had been a free lance for seven years when Paramount signed her. She did more character parts, then she was featured in a college story, finally starred in a succession of shoddy program pictures. Last fall von Sternberg directed her in The Case of Lena Smith, one of the year's best pictures. Now she has been demoted to doing "featured" parts again. She is 5 feet 5? inches tall, weighs 124 pounds, is not stupid...
...marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef von Sternberg, director of Underworld, often gives this unusual picture the Spartan, grand effect he tries for. Best shot: Austrian officer brushing his hair before he shoots himself...
George Bancroft is as good a heavy as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Von Sternberg is as good a director as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Baclanova is as good a Russian hot house plant as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. "The Docks of New York" is as good an underworld picture as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time...
Died. Carl Sternberg, 50, famed two decades ago for his remarkable resemblance to President Theodore Roosevelt; in Manhattan; suddenly, after jumping out of a 13th story bedroom in the New Mills Hotel. A note found in his room said: "Am feeling like a boy going fishing...
...Salvation Hunters. What was reported to be a seven-league stride in pictures turned out to be only a good broad jump. Josef Von Sternberg has done things that were never done before. He has created a picture all nickeled and new. His supply of novelty ran out. He based his technique on simplicity and symbolism. His story dealt with a cowardly youth who came to town with a girl and child to find their fortunes. As the girl is about to be seduced, he finally finds his courage and, with it, presumably, his future...