Press and Public Acclaim "Life Dances On" at Belmont
Press and Public Acclaim "Life Dances On" at Belmont TWO NEW FILMS AT PALACE Bobby Breen's newest, "Hawaii Calls," is now in its Broadway debut at the Palace, on the same program as "Women...
...It is a part suiting the highly individual talents of Pierre Blanchar...
...A widow of thirty-four or five finds among her late husband's papers the dance program of her first ball...
...GARRISON FILMS HAS UNUSUAL OFFER TO LABOR ORGANIZATIONS Word has just been received from Garrison Film Distributors that they have added to their library a swell and important short called Austria Vanishes...
...and he is about to marry his cook, does, in fact, conduct the ceremony itself, and reads himself an "extempore" congratulatory address into the bargain...
...But his mother, played with the disereetest and most dreadful hint of madness by Francoise Rosa y, stttl lays Wa place**the dinner table, still puts fresh flowers in his room, with its boyish untidiness, its twenty-year-old calendar, its half burnt cigarette, and still awaits his evening return...
...A first ball,* she telfs himl as they leave together, "is as important as a first cigarette...
...The scenario, as conceived by Julien Duvivier, who directed' the film also, is as follows: A story, cynical, moving, enchanting, and disenchanted, of lost youth and first love deliberately re-encountered...
...The third, once a distinguished musician, she finds in a monastery, reasonably happy "as a boys' choirmaster...
...She will devote herself to this young boy—now she has a purpose in life...
...not the whilte and sickly "aquarelle" one might fear, bat authentic, rich, mellow and sufficiently cynical...
...Guido Sarmafp now embarks on a career whidi may carry on the Salmaggi naa* before the public for another qua...
...It is a one-reel subject with English sound commentary and is available to organizations for $2.00...
...The fifth man, tracked down in a dreadful apartment on the Marseilles waterfront, is a broken-down doctor with a dubious practice, wracked by epilepsy and nagged by a hideous shrew of a mistress whom, at the end of an exacerbating but discreetly contrived scene, we see him preparing to murder...
...Its memory, clothed in illusory idyllic romance, decides her to seek out the half dozen men whose names are written there, and who, nearly twenty years before, had sworn to love her all their lives...
...a portrait firmly drawn by Harry Baur...
...It takes six separate and distinet episodes, marked by a definite character, and tells vkti Independent story of each...
...will take place at the N«t York Hippodrome on Sunday «a> ning, May 1. '¦¦ He sings the ieaoa...
...He had, in fact, committed suicide when she made her ambitious but ill-judged marriage with another man...
...now proprietor of a dubious sort of nightclub and is about to serve* second term in prison, Lodis Jouvet stamps his own ironical personality firmly on this scene...
...The sweilest evening program and, incidentally, {he cheapest is Heart of Spain, Millions of Us and Austria Vanishes for as little as $20.00...
...The fourth, an unquenchable optimist from the "Midi,'* who was going to be president of the Republic with a huge fortune and an unlimited choice of beautiful women, found that "the sun came out" and he lingered on the road to his ambitions but he is mayor, nevertheless, of bis little town, president of everything except the Republic—of the bowling club, of the local band, of the Society of Ex-Presidents...
...ter century or longer...
...The first is dead...
...tenor role of Alfredo in j Ver#t opera "La Jrayiata^' .Soldo is the fir>t one-of-tf ietfft Salmaggi's nine children to brea forth in the professional music world . The falmtiggi namadurjaj the past.quarter century, sites'** maestro himself first saag'teSr rolefe,"leading subsequently tot activities as a promoter of "iiujetj...
...Garrison's suggestions is, take advantage of this opportunity...
...Other interesting news from this company is Garrison's special sixty-day offer to organizations...
...FILMS Iff ONE "Life Dances On," the successful French film currently at the Belmont, is realty seven film telescoped into one...
...nine Cent Top" grand opera, Vi been one ef international renowi a the theatre world...
...These pictures rented, and still do, if ordered separately, for $60.00...
...Raimu, true son of "Midi," can be trusted with this richly comic scene...
...It is a regular progressive feast...
...This picture backgrounds the ways and the events leading up to and reasons for Hitler's invasion of Austria...
...The whole is bound together by one dominating idea—thie search of a woman for her youthful admirers...
...The final anti-climax is the young widow's return to her home town, where the sixth man, now a domesticated and unpretentious little hairdresser, takes her to another ball, and confronts her idealized memory with the cruel and absurd reality...
...She'takes him to his first ball...
...She sets out, and finds what one might expect...
...Press and Public Acclaim "Life Dances On" at Belmont TWO NEW FILMS AT PALACE Bobby Breen's newest, "Hawaii Calls," is now in its Broadway debut at the Palace, on the same program as "Women Are Like That," the |Cay Francis-Pat O'Brien costarrer...
...Sufficiently disillusi-oned, the young widow (Marie Bell) returns to her Italian villa, and finds on her doorstep the solution.ui her problem—the son of the .man among .them all she .loved mo^st, but w^io is now dead...
...The second, a young lawyer, is...
...Fernandel invests this gay sequence with irresistible charm and humor...
...It is about time the Labor Organizations really got a break and this seems to be it...
...G4//DO SALMAGGI IN GRAND OPERA DEBUT ¦ - The long awaited grand opera debut of Guido Salmaggi, twentyone-year-oi^ son of Alfredo St), maggi...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 18
