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The story is transparently thin, and the acting is uniformly bad. Miss Moore, as an opera star deported by the quirks of the immigration law, who gets back to the United States by marrying Cary Grant, a wandering artist, is utterly unconvincing. Perhaps the worst scene we can recall, not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Sun Kissed (by Raymond Van Sickle; Bonfils & Somnes, producers) inauspiciously marks the debut as Broadway producers of Helen G. Bonfils-earnest, stage-struck daughter of the late, blatant publisher of the Denver Post-and her husband, George Somnes. It is a limping comedy about a Los Angeles boardinghouse full of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

The basis of the plot is found in the threats and subsequent murders of all but one member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Joseph Calleia gets his oar in, but he is a friendly back-stabber this time. The solution to the mystery comes with the exposure...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

Iron Men's inconsequential and unconvincing story concerns a crack squad of "connectors," the men who bolt structural beams in place to be followed by the "gunners'' who rivet them. Andy, the arrogant and prideful leader of the gang, becomes angry when one of his men, Nils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

The Student, undergraduate paper of Amherst College whose most famed son was Calvin Coolidge, last week came out for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt. Reason: it found "Governor Landon a colorless and unconvincing candidate." Editor-in-chief of the Student is Henry Stuart Hughes, grandson of Chief Justice Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grandson's Choice | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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