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...Revolution. The Russians had queer ideas of their countryman who was coming back to play for them. He would arrive with two Ethiopian bodyguards. His violin would be in a bright silver case. His wife would be either a Miss Ford or a Miss Rockefeller instead of Cinemactress Florence Vidor. Even so, there were Russians who took five-day journeys to hear Heifetz fiddle in Leningrad and Moscow, Russians who paid as high as 24 rubles ($19.20) to squeeze into his concerts, Russians who stayed long after the lights went down to hear his Schubert's Ave Maria. Heifetz...
...book State Fair into one of the best pictures of last winter. The Stranger's Return, which was completed in Hollywood by the time the book was published (TIME, July 10), is an even more appealing pastoral, distinguished by Author Stong's incisive characterizations and by King Vidor's direction which is so authoritative that Lionel Barrymore acts all through the picture without belching once...
...simplicity of the story, the fact that its elements have been used in the cinema a thousand times before, make it easy to overlook the fact that Cynara is a most unusual picture. This is not because it possesses the surface excellences-sensitive direction, by King Vidor, and more than competent acting-with which shrewd old Samuel Goldwyn quite often equips his productions. It is because Cynara presents, with sombre thoughtfulness, a situation which the cinema almost always handles blatantly ; and because the values which it involves, while not particularly subtle, are wholly unlike those which U. S. cinema audiences...
Separated. Eleanor Boardman. film actress; from King Wallis Vidor, director, former husband of Florence Vidor who is now the wife of Jascha Heifetz, violinist; in Los Angeles...
...stencilled plot of The Champ might not have tempted many of Hollywood's directors, but it was rich to the taste of Director King Vidor. Far from being ashamed of such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible...