National Board of Review Magazine (Jan 1936 - Dec 1938)
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£ STRANGE FACES— Frank Jenks, Dorothea Kent, Andy Devine. Screenplay by Charles Grayson. Directed by Errol Taggart. Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent make a swell team as rival reporters whose squabbles forever keep them apart. Their entertainment value should be more widely recognized. In this story they are involved in tracking down the double of a murdered man, who is cashing in on the corpse's lost opportunities. Speedy comedy-melodrama. Universal.
f ^SUBMARINE PATROL — See Exceptional Photoplays Dept., page 17.
f TORCHY GETS HER MAN — Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane. Original screen story by Albert DeMond. Directed by William Beaudine. Torchy helps, in spite of the police, to run down a gang of counterfeiters. Brisk and entertaining. Warner Bros.
f *YOUNG IN HEART. THE— Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard. Novel by I. A. R. Wylie "The Gay Banditti." Directed by Richard Wallace. A fresh and engaging comedy about what happened when a charming family of gold-diggers attached themselves to a rich and lonely old lady. Bright talk and situations, and a splendid cast including Roland Young. Billie Burke, Minnie Dupree and Richard Carlson. United Artists.
SHORT SUBJECTS
INFORMATIONAL^ fj ATHLETIC ODDITIES — Amusing' record of out
of-the-ordinary sports from all over the world.
20th Century-Fox. fj *BIRD DOGS (RKO Pathe Sportscope) — A most
interesting and attractive account of how bird
dog's are trained. RKO Radio, f COSTA RICA — Some beautiful scenes of Costa
Rica. Paramount, fj DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE
(Technicolor Specials)' — How our fundamental
document was written and adopted. Vitaphone. fj GOING PLACES WITH GRAHAM MacNA
MEE NO. 56 — The beauties of Puerto Rico.
Recommended for schools or libraries. Universal.
fj GOING PLACES WITH GRAHAM MacNAMEE No. 57 — Showing the Yellowstone Park as Nature's wonderland. Recommended for schools or libraries. Universal.
fj GOING PLACES WITH GRAHAM MacNAMEE No. 58 — Windmills old and new; the Island of Corsica. Recommended for schools or libraries. Universal, f GRID RULES (Pete Smith Specialty)— How some of the football rules came to be made. Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer. f HOW ON ICE (Pete Smith Specialty— Interesting-, about hockey. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. f IMMORTAL BRUSH, THE (Technicolor Specials)— About' famous paintings. Vitaphone.
fj JAIPUR— THE PINK CITY (Fitzpatrick Traveltalk) — About the City of Jaipur, in India, in excellent color. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
fj *MAN'S GREATEST FRIEND— About dog's, and especially what they have contributed to the solution of human problems about disease, with an episode on Louis Pasteur. Met'ro-GoldwynMayer.
f 'MARCH OF TIME No. 3. THE (5th Series) — "Inside the Maginot Line". A fascinatingglimpse into the interior of France's first line of defense with careful treatment of its technicalities. Includes resume of the military trainingcompulsory for every youth. Done with the
usual excellence of these instructive series which never fail to grasp the essentials of a subject. RKO Radio.
f MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED (Colortour Adventure)'— About weather-forecasting; isola tingvitamins; how fire departments work; television. Vitaphone. fj MIRACLE OF SALT LAKE, THE (MGM Miniatures)— An episode in the struggle of the Mormons to settle the great Salt Lake Desert — the plague of insects and the visit of seag'ulls in answer to Brigham Young's prayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
f PARAMOUNT PICTORIAL NO. -1— How they discover oil wells in the modern method; Southern resorts for winter sports. Paramount.
f *PASSING PARADE NO. 1 — Excellent pictorial essays on three subjects: the millions of unclaimed money that lies in banks; the life history of an automobile and where the junk finally goes, and "mail-order marriage." MetroGoldwyn-Mayer.
f POPULAR SCIENCE NO. 2— Scientific experiments in various fields. Paramount.
f STRANGER THAN FICTION Nos. 56, 57, 58— Each contains about ten strange items of livingnews, varying from hobbies and out-ofthe-ordinary occupations to unusual places of business, queer customs and other strange odds and ends found in domestic and foreign life. Interesting. Universal.
f SUPER ATHLETES (Grantland Rice Sportlights) — Showing the difference between the old time athlete and the modern. Paramount.
f TABLE MANNERS — Fine exhibition of table tennis. Vitaphone.
f *THEY LIVE AGAIN— How two doctors — Bant
. ing and Best, with the help of Gilchrist— di -cohered and perfected insulin, the remedy for the scourge of diabetes. Recommended for schools or libraries Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
f TITANS OF THE DEEP— An expedition for tropical undersea exploration made by Dr. William Beebe and Otis Bartin, with the bathysphere to work in. Grand National.
CARTOONS AND COMEDIES fj BABY KITTENS — A dog adopts three little kittens until the mother cat makes trouble for him. Universal, fj DATE TO SKATE, A (Popeye the Sailor Cartoon)—The sailor takes Olive Oyl to roller skate. Paramount, j DISOBEDIENT MOUSE, THE (Walter Lantz Cartoon) — What happens to mice who don't obey their mommas. Universal, f FOOTBALL ROMEO (Our Gang) — Alfalfa, of Our Gang, is jockeyed into being a football hero by Darla. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. fj NIGHT WATCHMAN, THE— A kitten's amusingadventures protecting the house from mice. Vitaphone.
fj *SOCIETY DOGSHOW (Walt Disney Cartoon) — Mickey Mouse and Pluto go to a ritzy dogshow. RKO Radio.
f STRANGER RIDES AGAIN, THE (TerryToons) — Funny burlesque of the serial type of outdoor melodrama. 20th Century-Fox.
f YOU'RE AN EDUCATION— Bright cartoon, in which travel ads come to life. Vitaphone. MUSICALS, NOArELTIES AND SERIALS
f DUDE RANCH (Reelisms) — What happens on a dude ranch. RKO Radio.
f HAL KEMP AND HIS ORCHESTRA— Some very nice music supplied by this orchestra. Paramount.
f MERLE KENDRICKS AND HIS ORCHESTRA (Melody Masters) — Unusual arrangements. Vitaphone.
f OPENING DAY (Robert Benchley)— Substituting for the mayor. Robert Benchley opens the baseball season by throwing the first ball out. Metro-Goldwvn-Maver.
f BOBBIN' GOOD— Puis Zagone gives an interesting and instructive exhibition of how card cheating and fixed gambling devices are operated. Vitaphone. fj SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE (Serial) Nos. 1-2. Jackie Cooper. David Durand, Bill Codey, Jr. Directed by Ray Taylor. A story about BoyScouts. Universal.
f TOILS OF THE LAW (Floyd Gibbons "Your True Adventure" Series) — One of Floyd Gibbons' real life episodes, how two brothers were cleared of a murder charge.