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The Charm of La Boheme (Intergloria Film) sets characters very like Puccini's Mimi and Rodolfo on a tragic course in a modern cinema plot, contrives to fit the woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen.

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Jezebel (Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent; TIME, March 28).

Merrily We Live (Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray;...

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