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Polonaise (music by Frédéric Chopin & Bronislaw Kaper; lyrics by John Latouche; book by Gottfried Reinhardt & Anthony Veiller; produced by W. Horace Schmidlapp in association with Harry Bloomfield) is a sumptuously messy musical that involves a chronological partition of Poland. Eighteenth-Century Polish Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the freedom-loving volunteer of the American Revolution, supplies the plot; 19th-Century Polish Frédéric Chopin contributes most of the music; and 20th-century Polish Jan Kiepura (The Merry Widow) leads the singing...
Died. Bayard Veiller, 74, mystery dramatist (Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair, The Trial of Mary Dugan) ; in Manhattan. Veiller left college for a newspaper job, wrote Within the Law in 1911, sold it outright for $3,750, saw it make $500,000 on the stage...
...warm but somewhat spongy liberalism. The war and the Army seem to have stiffened his humanitarian fiber. Never a bossy boss, he leaves his assistants much to their own devices. He can well afford to-among the film virtuosi now under his command are Major Anatole Litvak, Major Anthony Veiller, and veteran cutter Captain William Hornbeck. Among their projects is a series of three films called Know Your Enemy, seven called Know Your Allies...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a re-make and a prissy fumigation of Bayard Veiller's famed courtroom drama which in 1929 became Norma Shearer's first all-talking picture. Mary Dugan this time is pretty young Laraine Day (of the Doctor Kildare series), whom M. G. M. is building toward the Big Time. And Mary Dugan this time isn't a girl who has become a kept woman to help her brother get educated. She is a virgin stenographer. Many other changes have been made to produce the morality play-which badly drags...
Winterset (RKO) is Maxwell Anderson's play, transferred to the screen by Producer Pandro S. Herman with such honesty, intelligence and skill that it betters its original. By abbreviating some of Author Anderson's less appropriate flights of poetry, Anthony Veiller, who wrote the screen play, improved the dialog. RKO's art director, Van Nest Polglase, taking his key from the stage sets designed...