Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibiting apparatus. Nonetheless, the swing to color, barely perceptible last year, will be highly noticeable in 1936-37. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and Dancing Pirate were last season's only colored features. Next season United Artists will make six, Twentieth Century-Fox two, Paramount two, Warner, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Amkino one each...
...Universal's program of 42 pictures, most notable was a life of Mme Curie, to prepare for which Irene Dunne was last week visiting Mme Curie's daughter Eve in Paris. Warner Brothers, who set the vogue for serious biographies in cinema, planned six more, including Danton, Joan of Arc and The Story of Beethoven, as well as their usual investigations of singing, dancing and machine-gun shooting...
Hearts Divided (Warner) turns out to be a particularly inept little costume piece in which Marion Davies proves unable to furnish first-rate entertainment even when directed by Frank Borzage and surrounded by such players as Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains. Miss Davies is Betsy Patterson, a belle of old Baltimore. Mr. Powell is Jerome Bonaparte, sent over to represent Napoleon at ceremonies surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The picture is notable solely for the Rains characterization. Ham actors long to be Napoleon. Mr. Rains makes Napoleon a ham actor...
Appearing this week, the June issue of the Law Review will contain four articles by eminent authors. "Ought the Doctrine of Consideration to be Abolished from the Common Law?", by Lord Wright, Master of Rolls, is featured. Leslie Craven, Counsel to the Federal Coordinator of Transportation; Professor Warner Fuller of Duke University Law School, Felix Frankfurter; and Dean Charles E. Clark of Yale Law School complete the list...
Sons o' Guns (Warner Bros.). People who are amused by the fact that Joe E. Brown's mouth resembles an omelet will not mind this version of a musicomedy in which the late Jack Donahue danced in 1929-30. Reluctantly embroiled in the War, Brown participates in a number of gags which culminate in his impersonating a British officer, getting involved in a battle, impersonating a German officer, bringing a German regiment back to the U. S. lines. Good pantomime: Brown, convinced that he is to be shot, rehearsing the way he will smoke a last cigaret with...