Spiel im MorgenFrauen
34. S. e
HEMSTREET
96 WARREN STREET
NEW VOI.K CITY
JUN
3—
The New Films : Thornton Delehanty
Daybreak“ and The Luwyer’s Secret’’—Russia’s Five-Vear
Plan in Picture Form
170U would hardly recognize Arthur Schnitzler in the movie version of
bis mordänt novel, Daybreak,“ which is showing this week at the
apitol. But, then, of course, it’s just as well, for an unadulterated Dr.
chnitzler on the screen would send the average miovie audience into a
pasm of revulsien.
Knowing hands and loving care have seen to it that all the so-called
bjectionable Teatures of the original Schnitzler book were carefully
runed in the process of transcribing it to the screen, And with these
leletions have gonc thavitality of.thedrama, the intensity of its romance
ad the entire Viennese spirit, leaving? .
amon Novarro and Helen Chandle¬
reprodube as faithfully as they can
fairly banal rornance against a set¬
ing which, judging from a huge por¬
rait of Franz Josef and a few Blue
Janube waltzes from a beer garden
#rchestra, has something to do with
re-war Vienna.
In spite of this enfeeblernent of the
story Daybreak“ has its occasional
bursts of rumance, Humor and sus¬
pense. Lamon Novarro manages to be
debonalr and effervescent in the proper
Continental manner, and Helen Chand¬
ler, in spite of her occasional lapses into
a stony inanimation, projecte a mild
sense of her tragedy. Mr. Novarro has
Sto work terrloly hard to overcome the
inanities of the various young officers
who, collectively, are supposed to rep¬
resent the spirit of the Austrian army.
Their insouclant gayeties and barrack
room pranks are carrled off in a man¬
ner suggestive of Commencement Day
at the Virginia Military Institute. And
it’s pretty-hard to connect that up with
Vienna.
The story details the events which
follow on a lieutenant’s seduction of
a goung and innocent musie teacher.
An ingratiating and light-hearted
bounder, Lieutenant Willl, woos the
girl and having won her brings her to
Ishame and degradation by an attitude
that is offenslvely commercial. She
#ecomes, in jeffect, an adventuress,
vengefully plotting the day when she
can turn the tables on Willi. Her op¬
portunity arrives, but by that time
Willi has truly fallen in love with her.
Plunged in debt, Willi is headed toward
the orly way out for an officer and
PFentleman, which is suicide. Fortun¬
Tately, a rich uncle comes to the rescue
(Hollywood’s version of Schnitzler) and
all ends happily when Willi claims his
girl.
box 6/1
V Y Herald-Tribune
JUN ] 1931
By Marguerite Tarelaar
Daybreak'—Capitol
Daybreak, screen drama adapted from
the novel by Dr. Annur Schnitzler, directed
by Jacques Feyder and presented by M#tro¬
Ge dwyn-Mayer with the following cast:
Willi Ramon Novarro
Laura Helen Chandler
Herl Schnabel Jean Hersholt
General von Hartz. C. Aubrey Smith
William Bakewell
Otto
Emily Kessner. Karen Morley
Von Lear Kent Donglas
Franz Gienn Tryon
Josef Clyde Cook
Emil Sumner Getchel
Frau Hoffman lara Blandich
Herr Hoffman Edwin Maxwell
August Jackie Searle
If you (an disregard the heavy
crockery of the plot in the picture en¬
tertainment at the Capitol this week,
you will have a dellghtful eclair to
munch. As it is, you probably will
enjoy Daybreak“ for Ramon Novarro’s
Humorous performance. and the deft
touches in direction. How deft those
touches are you wil lappreciate, if you
are a film fan, when it is added that
M. Feyder was the director. He is the#
Frenchman who made the beautiful
screen study, Faces of Children.
The story os the present film is not
convincing; it is, in fact, far-fetched
and artificial, but its telling involves
so much charm and light comedy,
Imaginitively concelved, that the
d forgot¬
heavy-footed plot was inde
ns a motif of lyrical
ten. M
s play like a theme
fcers in
nd gay.
that
ven¬
acks
Gon
e8
out 1
, the
He t
isited,
first win
shows her the silvery beauty of the
moonlight as they sit at the river’s
edge, and at dawn drives her home over
the cobblestones in an open hack. This
is the beginning of love and lif for
her. But it ends almost as quichiy as
it started when she discovers he has
left on the breakfast table a note for
a large sum of money.
Feeling that her world has crumbled
she decides to turn the tables and re¬
turn this insult a hundred fold. Willi
aliscovers the blunder too late and dis¬
covers. too, that he loves this girl. The
rest of the picture works out the con¬
flict between these two, a conflict
which, of course, rights itself in the
final scene with a happy reconciliation
and the promise of a rosy kuture.
34. S. e
HEMSTREET
96 WARREN STREET
NEW VOI.K CITY
JUN
3—
The New Films : Thornton Delehanty
Daybreak“ and The Luwyer’s Secret’’—Russia’s Five-Vear
Plan in Picture Form
170U would hardly recognize Arthur Schnitzler in the movie version of
bis mordänt novel, Daybreak,“ which is showing this week at the
apitol. But, then, of course, it’s just as well, for an unadulterated Dr.
chnitzler on the screen would send the average miovie audience into a
pasm of revulsien.
Knowing hands and loving care have seen to it that all the so-called
bjectionable Teatures of the original Schnitzler book were carefully
runed in the process of transcribing it to the screen, And with these
leletions have gonc thavitality of.thedrama, the intensity of its romance
ad the entire Viennese spirit, leaving? .
amon Novarro and Helen Chandle¬
reprodube as faithfully as they can
fairly banal rornance against a set¬
ing which, judging from a huge por¬
rait of Franz Josef and a few Blue
Janube waltzes from a beer garden
#rchestra, has something to do with
re-war Vienna.
In spite of this enfeeblernent of the
story Daybreak“ has its occasional
bursts of rumance, Humor and sus¬
pense. Lamon Novarro manages to be
debonalr and effervescent in the proper
Continental manner, and Helen Chand¬
ler, in spite of her occasional lapses into
a stony inanimation, projecte a mild
sense of her tragedy. Mr. Novarro has
Sto work terrloly hard to overcome the
inanities of the various young officers
who, collectively, are supposed to rep¬
resent the spirit of the Austrian army.
Their insouclant gayeties and barrack
room pranks are carrled off in a man¬
ner suggestive of Commencement Day
at the Virginia Military Institute. And
it’s pretty-hard to connect that up with
Vienna.
The story details the events which
follow on a lieutenant’s seduction of
a goung and innocent musie teacher.
An ingratiating and light-hearted
bounder, Lieutenant Willl, woos the
girl and having won her brings her to
Ishame and degradation by an attitude
that is offenslvely commercial. She
#ecomes, in jeffect, an adventuress,
vengefully plotting the day when she
can turn the tables on Willi. Her op¬
portunity arrives, but by that time
Willi has truly fallen in love with her.
Plunged in debt, Willi is headed toward
the orly way out for an officer and
PFentleman, which is suicide. Fortun¬
Tately, a rich uncle comes to the rescue
(Hollywood’s version of Schnitzler) and
all ends happily when Willi claims his
girl.
box 6/1
V Y Herald-Tribune
JUN ] 1931
By Marguerite Tarelaar
Daybreak'—Capitol
Daybreak, screen drama adapted from
the novel by Dr. Annur Schnitzler, directed
by Jacques Feyder and presented by M#tro¬
Ge dwyn-Mayer with the following cast:
Willi Ramon Novarro
Laura Helen Chandler
Herl Schnabel Jean Hersholt
General von Hartz. C. Aubrey Smith
William Bakewell
Otto
Emily Kessner. Karen Morley
Von Lear Kent Donglas
Franz Gienn Tryon
Josef Clyde Cook
Emil Sumner Getchel
Frau Hoffman lara Blandich
Herr Hoffman Edwin Maxwell
August Jackie Searle
If you (an disregard the heavy
crockery of the plot in the picture en¬
tertainment at the Capitol this week,
you will have a dellghtful eclair to
munch. As it is, you probably will
enjoy Daybreak“ for Ramon Novarro’s
Humorous performance. and the deft
touches in direction. How deft those
touches are you wil lappreciate, if you
are a film fan, when it is added that
M. Feyder was the director. He is the#
Frenchman who made the beautiful
screen study, Faces of Children.
The story os the present film is not
convincing; it is, in fact, far-fetched
and artificial, but its telling involves
so much charm and light comedy,
Imaginitively concelved, that the
d forgot¬
heavy-footed plot was inde
ns a motif of lyrical
ten. M
s play like a theme
fcers in
nd gay.
that
ven¬
acks
Gon
e8
out 1
, the
He t
isited,
first win
shows her the silvery beauty of the
moonlight as they sit at the river’s
edge, and at dawn drives her home over
the cobblestones in an open hack. This
is the beginning of love and lif for
her. But it ends almost as quichiy as
it started when she discovers he has
left on the breakfast table a note for
a large sum of money.
Feeling that her world has crumbled
she decides to turn the tables and re¬
turn this insult a hundred fold. Willi
aliscovers the blunder too late and dis¬
covers. too, that he loves this girl. The
rest of the picture works out the con¬
flict between these two, a conflict
which, of course, rights itself in the
final scene with a happy reconciliation
and the promise of a rosy kuture.