Chattering gaily, the crowds trooped out of the ornate Excelsior Palace Hotel at the Lido last week, and hurried, depending on their circumstances, to their private launches or to the grimy vaporetto to Venice. After four weeks of showings the Second International Motion Picture Exposition was over.
There were plenty of prizes, but, as suspected, the very carnal Czechoslovakian film Exstase, even though it so far surpassed every other film in popularity that the Vatican's Osservatore Romano was forced to publish biting editorials (TIME, Aug. 27), won none of them. Prize for...
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