Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Mask (United Artists-Edward Small) is a sword-rattling, Dumascene version of one of the wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
...still calls a Douglas Fairbanks role may at last mean a place above the Hollywood salt. Born 30 years ago in Johannesburg, son of an English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke...
...Yokel Boy occasionally makes fun of Hollywood, more often it imitates it. The show's bright particular absurdity is its first-act curtain-a superpatriotic spectacle featuring, at different stage levels, marching men, moving battleships, zooming planes, happy firesides and village blacksmiths-an assembly-plant version of The American...
Comes Love (Artie Shaw; Bluebird) Most tuneful version of the most tuneful number of Yokel Boy, new Lew Brown musical...
...Eddie Cantor's Camel Caravan show. CBS. Substitute, starting last week (perhaps for good): Blondie, a radio version of the cinema version of a Hearstpaper comic strip...