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...World Waits (by George F. Hummel; Frank Merlin, producer) is a depiction of life in the murky base cabin of the Hartley Antarctic expedition, toward the end of a two-year stay. It resembles Journey's End in having an all-male cast and a rigid youth (Philip Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex) whose gibberings point up the venomous fortitude of the others. To forestall suspicion which might have occurred to auditors who knew that Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World...
Hirtenberg. Last February the Great Powers realized for the first time what steel is in the spine of this little fellow who looks like a cross between Actor Ernest Truex and a French bull pup. Italy, busily weaving Austria and Hungary into his chain of military alliances against France and the Little Entente, had sent some 50,000 rifles and 200 machine guns to be "repaired" at the factory in Hirtenberg near Vienna where they were made (see map p. 15). France and Britain "discovered" that these arms were actually bound for Hungarian troops. They sent a sharp ultimatum...
...wife to father her baby. He agrees, then reneges because he wants the other husband to suffer as he has. Finally the childless husband decides that a baby would be acceptable. Animating this dummy are four of Manhattan's most capable actors: for the childless husband & wife, Ernest Truex and Linda Watkins; for the fertile husband & wife, Glenn Anders and Ruth Weston. Truex's quick, frozen smile and suburban fussiness, Anders' handwringing and close attention to business, Miss Watkins' gentle hysterics, actually produce an evening's entertainment. Manhattan audiences blushed for as much...
Indeed Mr. Fairbanks might have done as well as Mr. Truex had no been cast in the part which Truex does so naturally, the fawning, effeminate, degenerate, and heavily-tressed and dressed male in Amazon-land. For Mr. Truex though good, was not what he might have been. The most satisfactory figure in the film, to this reviewer's mind, was Hercules, a broken nervous wreck of a man, standing six-foot-six in bearskin and beard, holding his monstrous cub in his right paw, and biting the finger nail's of his left in panicky fear of a small...
...incredulous when told that Greek troops, all males, are threatening the Amazon capital. Her sister, Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) is amazed when one of her counselors suggests that she try the unheard of experiment of marriage. She ridicules the idea of staying faithful to her silky little groom (Ernest Truex) but agrees to the ceremony because her treasury is running short of money and his mother has plenty of it. The main trouble with The Warrior's Husband is that its theme lacks capacity for development. Once the original idea sinks in there is nothing very comical-unless...