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Firstly the Royal Commission scored Lord Strickland's quarrels with the Maltese clergy as based originally on "trivial grounds." Secondly the Premier was stated to have used his powers of office as "a dominating and aggressive force, with a manner calculated to cause irritation and annoyance." Finally the Royal Commission said that Lord Strickland had committed an act almost smacking of treason to the Realm. Sent by his King-Emperor to guide and govern an excitable Latin race "extremely loyal to Great Britain" (according to the Royal Commission) he instead divided the Maltese "into very embittered cliques" and deliberately...
...validated, less by her acknowledged skill as an actress, than by the vitality and glow of her own extraordinary personality. She personifies, more than she impersonates, a woman who, nourished by experience, faces her own age with equanimity and has courage enough not to hate her inferiors for their trivial misdeeds. What would otherwise have been a routine tear-jerker is thus strengthened with some measure of warmth and humanity. Typical shot: Miss Dressier arising in court to contradict her lawyer when he belittles her accusers...
...Ginsberg (George Sidney) and a suave dummy president equipped with frock coat and toupe (Guy Kibbee), and by the justified suspicions of an attractive brunette (Evelyn Brent), whom he is prepared to marry at the end of the picture. High Pressure, well directed by Mervyn LeRoy, is rapid, trivial, dextrous and absurd. Good shot: Powell, rewarded with $100,000 for his synthetic rubber company, planning to capitalize a concern for making wooden airplanes...
Witness of the crash was Col. Young's information chief, Frederick R. Neely. A shrewd publicity manager, he requested authority to notify newspapers of the accident to avert wild rumors, scare headlines. The Press came, saw, got answers to its questions, went away satisfied that the story was trivial. Result: news reports were brief. 98% accurate...
...Killed (Paramount) is an extraordinary picture for several reasons. One is that the emotion with which it is mainly concerned?contrition?has generally been considered too vague or too rare for cinemaddicts to appreciate, except in its most blatant and trivial forms. Taken from a play by Maurice Rostand, The Man I Kitted presents the case of a hypersensitive French soldier who, when the War is over, is tortured by remembering a young German whom he stabbed to death in the trenches. Just how this grisly recollection affects the Frenchman becomes clear when a priest, to whom he has confessed...