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SEQUOIA M-G-M
HERE is a tine and beautiful picture which will amaze you because its story of animal life in the magnificent Sierra Mountains will stir you more deeply than any human drama. Jean Parker (perfectly cast) rescues a young fawn and a baby puma from pursuing hunters. The two animals, natural enemies, grow up together in a miraculous friendship, until Jean is forced to release them. The love story that follows when the deer takes a beautiful doe for his wife and they set up housekeeping in the woods, is one of the loveliest things you've ever seen on the screen.
The human romance, with Jean Parker and Russell Hardie, is effectively woven through the picture. Take grandpa and the children, and you'll all probably stay to see it twice. For it's a triumph in motion picture making
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IMITATION OF LIFE Universal
YOU will weep gallons, but you will love this warm, human story of the fine friendship between two mothers of different races allied in the common cause of their children. Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert) a widow with a baby girl, is selling maple syrup for a living, when along comes shining black Aunt Delilah (Louise Beavers — and what a performance!) with her little girl, Peola. Delilah makes delicious pancakes. Result: Aunt Delilah's Pancake Flour, and eventually a fortune for the two women. As the children grow up, however, difficulties present themselves. Pcola (Fredi Washington) looks white, and denies her black mother. Boa's daughter (Rochelle Hudson) falls in love with Warren William, whom Bea was to marry. The story, skilfully handled, makes a fine film
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THE MIGHTY BARNUM 20th CenturyUnited Artists
STEP right up, folks, and see just about the grandest show you ever paid your money for. You get the show and all the behind-the-scenes business as well, plus fascinating biography, and a laugh a minute. And the pathos is there, too when it is needed.
Wallace Beery as Phineas T. Barnum gives his best performance since "The Champ," and the rest of the cast is right up with him. Virginia Bruce, as Jenny Lind is the big surprise, looking more beautiful than anyone we can think of, and singing like an angel. Adolphe Menjou as Mr. Walsh, an alcoholic scientist, is a wow, Janet Beecher is a perfect shrewish Mrs. Barnum, and Rochelle Hudson lovely as the girl Ellen.
The opulent production, the movement, color, fantastic characters, the smoothness and direction, all combine into a brilliant background for some grand acting. The story is of Barnum's career from the New York small shop-keeper with a passion for freaks, on through his museum days, up through his mad infatuation for Jenny Lind which ruins him. Then he stages a grand return, uniting again with Mr. Walsh — whose first name turns out to be Bailey. This picture of the greatest show-man on earth, who was the originator of present-day exploitation, is salty and vigorous and one of the best evening's entertainment you will ever enjoy.