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EMIL JANNINGS RETURNS

... been shown in making the picture suitable for English speaking nations without the use of doubles. Jan nings, for instance, is depicted as a German professor of English literature, therefore he speaks, naturally, English with an ac cent. The cheap cabaret ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1251 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A LEADING TALKIE STAR

... voice is most attractive and her delivery arresting in its inten sity and realism. Although Harry Bannister, as the husband, speaks with a rather broad American accent when he is meant to be an Austrian, he, nevertheless, is good. This is chiefly because ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

ART AND ARTIFICE

... is Russian. You hear their words in perfect synchrony with the movements of their lips, yet not one of them, I believe, can speak English with anything ap proaching perfection. The answer to this riddle is that they have all been doubled, but so doubled ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 670 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

At the Sign of the Cinema

... the unsophis ticated has, at any rate for the moment, lifted these uncom plicated stories of ad venture into promin ence. Speaking for myself, I have always enjoyed the drama of the Far West. Gal loping cowboys and stampeding herds, villainy unashamed ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1167 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE WALTZ ETERNAL

... un sophisticated charm, much as appeared in Charles Ray in his earlier days. The rest of the cast is German, and they all speak English. The fact that they have an accent adds rather than detracts from the enjoyment of the light fare, and certainly seems ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1229 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

EX-WIVES and OTHERS

... literary merit, but I am bound to say that it is most entertain ing. Years ago we should have been scandalised by its very plain speaking, but what with Lawrence and Lord Brentford pamphleteering as hard as they can about the censorship, and James Douglas telling ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1138 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE

... compiler and editor is Mr. John Parker, and the book now runs to over 1,800 pages. On the score of accuracy it is im possible to speak of this new edition, as only time can discover any errors it may have, but it is reasonable to expect good editing when previous ...

AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA: HOT FOR PARIS

... hectic atmosphere and broad humour from its famous pre decessor. The Cock-eyed World, the picture has very little story to speak of. It merely depicts a series of burlesque adventures and scenes of vigorous love- making, such as are expected of McLaglen ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 627 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

Our Captious Critic

... ana nothing at all both when his wife's re mark explains itself and when, as often haDDens. he has not noticed that she is speaking at all. He probably was fond of her and would cer tainly stick up for her, but it is not enough because she is Caroline and ...

MR. MAUGHAM IN HOT WATER

... that it will. At the same time, it does seem to me to be something more than a mere question of taste. If I may be allowed to speak as a novelist, I would say that the inclusion of any such por trait argues either a lack of imagination or, more probably, ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1477 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Character and Incident

... agreeable wit, his creative machinery would, I think; hardly have been set in motion if the problem of the bracelet had not, so to speak, pulled the lever. He was interested in his characters, and he makes us interested in them. Olivia, Brett Arden, and Lady Bettine ...

Published: Wednesday 15 October 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2494 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review