Upton Sinclair's "Wet Parade," at Rialto, an Absorbing Film

Upton Sinclair's "Wet Parade," at Rialto, an Absorbing Film 'ifittYer Huston and Cast Do Fine Work in Movie Adapted From Famous Socialist's Novel , Based on Upton Sinclair's famous novel,...

...In drama, Alexander Fredro and Stanlslaw Wyspianski, and in art, Jacek Maiczewskl and Thade Styka...
...Made under the direction of Victor Fleming, with a cast including Walter Huston, Jlmmle Durante, Dorothy Jordan, Neil Hamilton, Lewis Stone and Myrna Loy, it promises to be one of Broadway's leading attractions during its extended run...
...Based on an essentially modern theme, it deplete the turmoil of modern living, contrasting the fast hectic life of today with the period before the World War when such things ae night life, sophistication and political corruption did not occupy quite so much space on the front pages of the daily newspapers...
...Uebeskommando" Due Tues, at Europa Succeeding The Theft of the Mona Lisa", the German musical comedy drama which is concluding a four-week engagement, the Europa will present on Tuesday, April 20th, the American premiere of "Llebeskommando" ("Love's Command"), pronounced by European critics as an achievement In Viennese screen operettas...
...Southern plantation life before the World War is dramatically shown in the first episode which is tat a measure a prologue...
...The story then moves to New York and introduces Walter Huston as a drunken ward politician whose son, Robert Young, tries in vain to keep his father respectable...
...Melody, he believes, should be the atmosphere tempering the agreeable rhythm of the scene and nothing more...
...Upton Sinclair's "Wet Parade," at Rialto, an Absorbing Film 'ifittYer Huston and Cast Do Fine Work in Movie Adapted From Famous Socialist's Novel , Based on Upton Sinclair's famous novel, the screen production of The Wet Parade" now at the Rlalto Theatre, will give added millions of screen-goers its vivid picture of the struggle which is now on, and which has been going cm for almost a score of years...
...The stage artists of Poland," she continued, "influenced, as they have been, by the best qualities of the French and Russian schools of acting, possess a fineas and naturalness which lend themselves appropriately to the demands of the talking screen, and the work of the cast in "10-ciu a Pawiaka", individually and collectively, demonstrate that under capable direction Poland can produce films which will bear rigid comparison with the best of other countries...
...There are sensational exposes with dramatic Incidents which are said to be thrilling...
...in literature, Sienkewicz and Joseph Conrad...
...Joan Blondell is seen In the feminine lead opposite Cagney, and others in the cast include Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden, Guy Klbbee, Frank McHugh, and Charlotte Merriam...
...There is no reason, therefore, with this background of creative achievements, why Poland should not take its place on the screen with the Important producers of the world," said Pola Negri, after she had witnessed a private showing of the first Polish talking picture "10 Condemned" ("10-ciu a Pawiaka") which is now being shown for its American premiere engagement at the Vanderbilt Theatre...
...It is here that Lewis Stone hi a brilliant performance depicts an aristocratic land-owner who is brought to rum by drink, leaving his daughter, Dorothy Jordan, and son, Neil Hamilton, practically penniless...
...The Crowd Roars" at The Brooklyn Strand The Crowd Roars", starring James Cagney, which opens at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre tonight, is the story of speeding race-track demons, with bodies taut and nerves steeled to meet death, ae they dangerously crowd each other along the track In an effort to establish new speed records, and living their own lives with gusto and recklessness...
...Supporting Miss Blondell are Tom Brown, Adrienne Do re, Walter Miller, Leslie Fenton, Vlvlenne Osborne, Purnell Pratt, Russell Simpson and Clarence Wilson...
...The coming of the war, the enactment of prohibition and the sensational second Wilson campaign are all vividly echoed in this sequence...
...Kalman interposed his musical hits in such a manner as to fit In dramatically with the flow of action arising naturally from the plot...
...10 Condemned!' First Polish Picture at the Vanderhilt Theatre "Poland has given to civilization some of its greatest artists—in music, Chopin...
...Wild Women of Borneo" at the Cameo "Wild Women of Borneo", an extraordinary adventure through the Far East recording the fantastic beliefs and superstitions of the natives, Is the feature film attraction at the Cameo Theatre...
...In "Ronny" Mr...
...Circumstances bring Miss Jordan and Hamilton into contact with the politician and the natural hatred of liquor shared by the Southern girl and the soap box orator's son gives them a point in common which ultimately develops into romance...
...The picture also has its gayer side, but through it all is an engrossing insight into American life of today, a feat made all the more remarkable by the fact that in directing this picture Victor Fleming never lost Bight of the entertainment angle...
...The Famous Ferguson Case" at the Strand "The Famous Ferguson Case," the second of the groups of special attractions to be shown during the gala anniversary month at the New York Strand Theatre features the wisecracking young Joan Blondell for the first time In the main lead...
...She appears as an enterprising girl reporter whose assignment is discovering the murderer of William F. Ferguson, a man prominent in the social and financial world...
...Ronny" Enters third Week at Little Carnegie "Ronny", the new Viennese screen operetta now entering its third week at Leo Brecher's Little Carnegie Playhouse, has received special musical treatment from Emmerich Kalman the composer...

Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 17


 
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