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MARTIN'S SUMMER?Vicki Baum?Cosmopolitan...
...Authoress Vicki Baum, whose dramatized Grand Hotel has made a hit on Broadway, tells a light-heartedly lubricous tale of an Adonisian swimming instructor and the damage he did at a German summer resort. Martin was a serious-minded young man (he had invented a paper substitute for cinema film) who found himself temporarily out of a job and turned his hobby into a cab-horse. But he was beautiful as the day, and women of all girths and dimensions flocked to his instruction. Martin was kindhearted, with a good digestion and an equable temper; but before the summer...
...What makes this a brilliant picture is the way it has been directed by William K. Howard, onetime Cincinnati theatre manager, law student, sales adviser for Universal, who may be among the ten best directors of next year (see above). The story, which borrows the flashy tricks of Vicki Baum's play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta...
...Directing his work with the Stadium Grand Opera Co. was Ernst Lert, longtime stage director at La Scala in Milan, dropped from the Metropolitan this year after two seasons. A facile lighting technician, Lert worked for sweeping effects in great patches of contrasted colors. His sister-in-law is Vicki Baum, playwright of famed Grand Hotel...
...received and even free publicity from the House of Representatives does not seem to have boosted its sales appreciably. Among the freaks and curiosities Ogden Nash's "Hard Lines" and a little book of ridiculous answers to examination questions called "Boners" are about the best sellers in Cambridge today. Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel" is the most successful of the recent novels and seems to have displaced the "Imperial Palace" of Arnold Bennett in popularity...