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Neatly produced by Hal B. Wallis, earnestly directed by Edmund Goulding, handsomely performed by its well-chosen cast, White Banners thus turns out to be a smooth, ennobling circus, which should surprise and gratify those who look for sermons in shows and books on double bills. Typical shots: Hannah smiling bravely when Sally breaks a plate; when Pete is impertinent; when Paul Ward has a tantrum...
...Rose Bowl," the second feature offering is an unexpectedly pleasant and interesting picture. While necessarily including the drama of the football field and the eternal triangle Warner Brothers employed able professional players for the scrimmage scenes, and also succeeded in lightening the romance by typical, though well-chosen, sophomoric wisecracks. Though roommates Benny Baker and Tom Brown carry most of the scenes, the same Eleanore Whitney whose star faded so suddenly this summer gives herself a boost back up the ladder in this grid Irony romance...
...These essays on the life and thought of Kipling, Wells, Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad, Strachey, Lawrence, Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield were first delivered as lectures to French audiences, and most of them suffer from the exigencies of their original purpose. Again and again an indigestibly large amount of biographical data is crammed into a study, followed by a series of extracts from the work of the writer with an expository commentary, and a critical estimate which in all but a few cases is disappointingly elementary and orthodox. The extracts are well-chosen, the exposition is competent, but, save for the occasional...
...through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese priests, a pagan temple, a Chinese junk, a U. S. pickaninny. Of all the well-chosen, well-reproduced photographs, the one most likely to cause pause is captioned: "Taxi? Here is the Mongolian version of the taxicab, with its toothless and carefree Jehu. Outer Mongolia presents many problems. . . . But its missioners watch and wait patiently- a policy borne out by the Church...
Metropolitan: The latest DeMille collossus, remarkably well cast, complete with 500--count 'om 500--beautiful ladies, and all the gorgeous panorama of Roman and Egyptian life portrayed with the usual DeMille facility, makes this picture well worth a trip into Boston, even if the novel vaudeville and well-chosen shorts at the Met were omitted, which they...