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FRANK NUGENT of the New York Times was surprised at the indifferent welcome extended Robert Taylor and Jean Harlow in the picture "Personal Property." I don't know why New Yorkers stayed away from that movie, but I know why I did. It was a rehash of an old movie, "The Man in Possession." I confess I'm tired of paying to see an antiquated movie, no matter who stars in it. Within a few days in Winona, Minnesota,.our first-class theater showed "Seventh Heaven," "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" and "Personal Property." All were rehashes. As far as I'm concerned, Janet Gaynor sewed up "Seventh Heaven" for me. Besides, today I don't want to weep at the movies over a sentimental love story. Norma Shearer did "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" several years back and if Crawford can do better, I'm not interested.
There are fashions in drama as in clothes. Classics are few. They and they only can withstand the process of being filmed over and over. \ flimsy yarn (pallid in compari on v il h i he star's previous exhibitions of inferno), such as Personal Property," belongs in the heap with other lads thai have spent themselves.
\ novelist couldn't rewrite a book several years later, dress
it up in modern lang and clothes, and sell it al full price. No
ould bu ii at lea, t not more than once, without asking
"Is this a dupli' ate el Mi i;< • ,t Seller's novel \\ rit ten several
The Prince and the Pauper go fishing— one works while the other whittles. Billy and Bobby Mauch are making the most of their vacation before starting "A Prayer for My Sons"
years ago?" Only we moviegoers don't have the opportunity to know we are being gypped because titles are changed without our knowing it. Never yet have I seen a mention on the poster to the effect that
"This picture was made before under the title of — ." I recom
mend that notation on future posters.
Broadway says the best writing talent in the country has
gone to Hollywood. If so, why hasn't someone out there
enough talent, imagination or initiative to write a NEW show
that looks today in the eye. Why go back to the shoddy, half-baked morals of post-bellum days? Why is any rehash of the past (classical writers omitted) better than current thoughts and manners? If the movie producers insist on rehashing old pictures, why don't they show them in the second-run theaters where they deserve to be. Perhaps other movie fans have different opinions on this subject. Hear . . . hear!
Kathryn Handy Fuller, Winona, Minn.
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SCORCHINGLY SCRUMPTIOUS
Superlatives are usually permitted only to motion-picture critics, but as an ordinary fan I should like to borrow a few in praise of "A Star is Born." As a story it had everything — all the sentiment, human interest and heartaches of success stories placed in an everfascinating locale. But the addition of color made it pulsate and glow with life. The lines of Dorothy Parker delivered by