Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intuition of every player in his role. Norton Goodwin in the part of Charles Tritton trembles and wavers and broods just as he should. He is an English medical student whom one follows through a Scotch university. During the course of the play he exchanges an earthy, ebullient childhood sweetheart (Bettina Gray) for a skyey, placid sculptress (Lois Hall). That is the essence of the drama, and the cause of the various spasms...
...since they were children. When her father, a newspaper publisher, moved to Mexico City and took Maria along, Juan was not daunted. He had learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought a monoplane, and one calm night new to Natal, Brazil while the Spanish Cortes uttered sympathetic cheers. Meanwhile Maria almost spoiled matters by denying that they were engaged. But after writing some signed pieces for Universal...
...stage debut at 3. doing imitations of Greta Garbo in English vaudeville. As a contract actress at Warners, she has been held in minor roles to permit her to "develop." Her current appearance is supposed to whet the appetite of cinemaddicts for her first starring vehicle, Everybody's Sweetheart, to be produced this spring...
Case of Clyde Griffiths (by Erwin Piscator & Lena Goldschmidt; Group Theatre & Milton Shubert, producers). Thirty years ago an errant youth of Cortland, N.Y. named Chester Gillette took his sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For a generation Chester Gillette's crime and punishment were forgotten by the outside world until Theodore Dreiser exhumed the case, wrote a wordy but exhaustive novel about it called An American Tragedy. Since 1926 the Dreiser story of "Clyde Griffiths' " downfall has become a sort of national institution...
...omnipotent, omnipresent lover (Preston Foster). There are also germs of amusement in her dilemma when she has to choose between submission to her presumptuous lover (the same Mr. Foster), smugly on- sconced in his steam-yacht; and death by drowning with her wine-soaked, brine-soaked, luke-warm sweetheart (Ceasar Romero) in his tiny, tossing sloop. But the finale falls flat once again. Preston and Carole are married while conducting a licentious altercation. Pathe news catches the spirit of the thing, and elsewhere in the program very impressvely sums up the last twenty-five years in all their hectic strife...