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...good sense to use chunks of dialog by Hemingway wherever they fitted in. When they had to put in dialog of their own they did it so adroitly that only someone who had memorized the book would know the difference. Their changes in the story were judicious. Lieu tenant Frederic Henry meets Nurse Catherine Barkley outside a brothel when so befuddled that he mistakes her for one of its inmates. His friend Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), in the capacity of censor, returns unopened Nurse Barkley's letters to her lover when he is on the Italian front and when...
...Lampoon had recognized the difficulties which confronted their magazine and had taken the steps necessary to obviate them. The subscription rate was dropped with the hope of increasing the circulation; the Board entered combinations with other publications and constituted itself a subscription agent; tailoring contracts were sold for a tenant; a new Cafe was opened. Finally, readers had begun to observe a radical improvement in the tone and quality of the Lampoon's humor...
...lobbies signs show which elevators rise to certain heights. Starters are polite and intelligent. Cars stop precisely at floor levels. On each floor a light and a bell bring the tenant to the door of the ele- vator which will stop for him. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., which with Otis Elevator Co. leads in U. S. ele- vator research* now attaches photo-electric cells to elevators. These prevent elevator doors closing on passengers, allow the doors to close the instant the passenger safely enters...
Cabin in the Cotton (First National) is a serious drama of the South's cotton belt, full of violence undramatically organized. As the poor tenant farmers' emancipator, Richard Barthelmess lifts his shining face toward a new day when landlords and tenants will "co-operate." Out of Henry Harrison Kroll's novel, able Southern Playwright Paul Green (In Abraham's Bosom, The House of Connelly) has sneaked into the cinema a good playwright's impartiality. The philosophy of the picture is that the rich are bad and the poor are bad, but the rich are bad because nobody has told them...
Richard Barthelmess, son of a tenant farmer who dies of the scrabble for existence, educates himself with the rich landlord's help, becomes the landlord's man. The poor steal the rich man's cotton, kill his men, burn down his store. The rich man juggles the accounts to keep the poor in debt to him, takes part in lynching a poor man. Each side looks to Barthelmess to betray the other. He snubs a tenant girl's (Dorothy Jordan's) clean love as he succumbs to the unholy temptations of the landlord's daughter (Bette Davis). When the burning...