Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metal has been flattened by steamrollers, some of it will be made into souvenirs for sale. British lighter-than-aircraft enthusiasts mourned the R-101's end, which, they felt, would also sound the knell of the government-operated Cardington dirigible plant and throw many a skilled technician out of work. The U.S. Navy has offered to take over a portion of British airship personnel, keep it in training...
...when Mr. Pollock sat down to write "The House Beautiful", skilled technician as he is, he fatally ignored all the conventions of the play writer's craft which make for "good theatre." It is difficult enough to sympathize with a character in a play when a span of thirty years is treated within less than three hours, and this difficulty is amplified when the characters are less human beings than they are mouthpieces for the most obvious sort of preaching...
...setting is a high-class tenement house. The story concerns all the people who live in it, but chiefly the Maurrants who give the other tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney...
...grandeur the sets used on the six nights, was Laurence Higgins, a 25-year-old native son. Directing his work with the Stadium Grand Opera Co. was Ernst Lert, longtime stage director at La Scala in Milan, dropped from the Metropolitan this year after two seasons. A facile lighting technician, Lert worked for sweeping effects in great patches of contrasted colors. His sister-in-law is Vicki Baum, playwright of famed Grand Hotel...
Stuart Walker, able technician of Indianapolis and Cincinnati stock companies, has handled the story well but shows his unfamiliarity with the cinema by not moving his camera around enough. Actress Shannon photographs prettily. Less provocative than Clara Bow, she shows more signs of histrionic intelligence. The story, borrowed from a 20-year-old play, is still ip to date in outline but its motivations re rusty, its crucial moments creak a little...