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...sometimes said that the motion picture is the Peter Pan of the arts; Walter Wanger and United Artists are fast proving this dictum false. With "Algiers" and now with "Trade Winds," this week at Loew's State and Orpheum, a simple theme has been taken and developed through the ingenious use of technical devices into a powerful and moving drama. This is not to say that from a purely artistic point of view, "Trade Winds" is in a class with its predecessor, for it is not; but on the other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular...
Trade Winds (Walter Wanger-United Artists). On Nov. 24, 1935, Director Tay Garnett sailed from Los Angeles in the yacht Athene. With him he took a camera crew, a complete film laboratory. His object: a 50,000-mile round-the-world cruise to gather material for his next picture. Last week, when the result of his expedition was released as Trade Winds, audiences expected that, as a travelogue, it might be a pleasant surprise...
...witness, a brunette, Senta de Wanger, appeared in a greenish-gray sport jacket, green skirt, green hat. Miss de Wanger runs a liquor store at Hempstead, N. Y., near the Air Corps' Mitchel Field, L. I. She was sought out by absentee William Lonkowski, one of the few who was portrayed as a spy capable of digging out worthwhile information. To him and his wife German-born Senta rented part of her quarters...
Soon she noticed that Voss frequently visited her tenants. Miss de Wanger also noticed that the Lonkowskis spent much money on liquor and parties. One night she asked Mrs. Lonkowski where they got the money. "From the Government-the German Government," replied Mrs. Lonkowski. She and her husband vanished after U. S. customs and Army officers caught Lonkowski red-handed with military airplane plans, swallowed his denials, let him get away...
...about money. Top producers in Hollywood currently are Twentieth Century-Fox's small, dynamic Darryl Zanuck, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's aging, pompous Louis B. Mayer, Warner Brothers' Harry Wrarner and Hal Wallis, Jock Whitney's placid David Oliver Selznick, United Artists' socially conscious Walter Wanger and legendary Sam Goldwyn. Producers may be onetime writers, theatre owners, book peddlers or glove salesmen. Their pay runs from $1,000 weekly...