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...stock sample of Hollywood lavender & old lace. Although it exudes the nostalgic charm that has proved so palatable to cinemaudiences in adaptations of other Victorian classics, it is essentially not the story of a little boy's exaggerated devotion to his mother but that of a Brooklyn urchin who makes good in the old country. Handsomely rewritten for the screen by Hugh Walpole, beautifully staged, and superbly directed by John Cromwell, it affords proof that Selznick International is off to a flying start and offers an actors' holiday to Freddie Bartholomew, C. Aubrey Smith and Dolores Costello Barrymore...
Among these are a "psychological experiment" in which the children are allowed to make friends with a white rabbit, then informed that he will be cooked for their lunch; a pageant, in which the morose urchin selected to act as king has to have fleas combed out of his hair lest he upset his crown by scratching; Marie's effort to commit suicide when, after seeing Rose leave with the doctor, she thinks herself abandoned again...
Ginger, Jane Withers' first starring picture, is uncomplicated enough to conform to the limited rules laid down for child heroines denied the privilege of passion. It details the education of an urchin. Phase No. 1 displays her as a tenement scamp named Ginger, haphazardly raised by a bibbing old foster uncle (0. P. Heg-gie). In the role of brat, she stones windows, pastes neighborhood friends with fruit, eludes policemen by sliding gaily down a coal chute, fabricates glibly and frequently...
Opening with lengthy, minute particulars of Germany's urchin-in-the-jam-closet behavior, Dame France recalled to the League Council that, whereas German Air Minister Goring denied on Dec. 20, 1934 that his country possessed a military air force, three months later Realmleader Hitler told Sir John Simon that the Fatherland's military air force is equal to Great Britain...
...four scenarists including John L. Balderston (Berkeley Square) is somewhat obvious, the picture is nevertheless thoroughly entertaining, full of Mid-Victorian atmosphere, good acting, and Dickensian makeup. (The cast used 2,200 lb. of grease paint and false hair.) Startling shot: Jasper and Durdles being stoned by an urchin named Deputy who squeals: Winnie-winnie...