Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligent Readers Sander, Herriott, Morehouse, thanks for a sharp reminder. March of Time Inc. is negotiating with Fox Midwest and Warner Bros. chains to exhibit its reels in Milwaukee...
...author of one of the most successful burlesques ever written: Hazel Weston, or More Sinned Against Than Usual. This Shinnanigan has been played continuously for 23 years and translated into seven languages. Year ago, along with Myrtle Clayton, or Wronged from the Start, it was bought by Warner Bros. for the cinema...
...strikingly fresh story, but it is told with a skillful directness which makes "Broadway Bill" an exciting, absorbing film. Dan Rogers (Warner Baxter) in the course of his wanderings from race track to race track, lands in the thriving municipality of Higginsville, where he falls in love with and marries the eldest daughter of the town's captain of all industries, J. L. Higgins. The attractions of life in Higginsville as the manager of the Higgins Box Factory are not sufficient to divert Rogers from his all-consuming passion for fine horses and when he gets possession of Broadway Bill...
Sweet Music (Warner) is Rudy Vallee's most successful venture into cinema. Perceiving that the flaw in his previous productions was the fact that they required him to act, the authors of this one carefully made its hero, Skip Houston, a complimentary portrait of Vallee himself. Consequently, between songs, he is required to do little more than give an imitation of himself which he contrives to do successfully by smiling in a vacuous way and speaking in a low, bland monotone...
...rounded evening's entertainment even by Crooner Vallee's most fervent admirers, Sweet Music contains other ingredients. The story investigates Skip Houston's mismanaged romance with a Chicago tap-dancer (Ann Dvorak). Through it scrambles a host of entertaining minor characters impersonated by a quorum of Warner Brothers' large roster of comedians, notably Ned Sparks, as the dancer's irascible manager, and Allen Jenkins, as Skip Houston's pressagent. Alice White, as a scatterbrained chorus girl, does the best acting in the picture. Of Sweet Music's 80 minutes, 20 are occupied...