The Washington times., 1933-03-15
High Praise For
Cosmopolitan
Production

Gabriel Over the Whit e
House." the sensational Cosmo-
politan picture, was completed
yesterday at the Metro Goldwyn.
Mayer studios in Hollywood, and
was Immediately pre-viewed by
-Goldwn-Mayer and Cosmo,
politan executives in addition to
several film trade paper critics
w. r. Wilkerson, editor and pub.
Usher of the Hollywood Reporter,
in the current issue of that paper
gives it the most remarkably lau
datory review ever accorded mo
ton picture. Under his own sig
nature and the heading, "'Ga-
briel' Sensation-Greatest Piece
Of Theatrical Property Industry
Has Ever Known, Will Be the
Talk of the World" Mr.. Wilker'
son writes:
"The Metro GOIdwyn-Mayer
Cosmopolitan production Of
Gabriel Over the White House
will probably go down in the
history of motion pictures as
the most sensational piece of
film entertainment the world
has ever known and, as such,
will attract more people to the
box offices of Americas the
aterS than any motion picture
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"NOt only will Gabriel at
tract patrons to the box office,
not only will it please those
patrons, not only will it net
more money than any picture
since talkies came into being,
but it should bear a message to
the American people that may
put an end to the great prob
lens that confront our nation
today by showing them how a
President of the United States
handled the situation and the
marvellous results he attained.
SURE BOX OFFICE
"Inasmuch as this publication
is used as a medium Of dissent
mating information on the &C
tivitieS of the motion picture
industry, this report will con-
fine itself to Gabriel Over the
White House as a show, an en-
tertainment, a bOx-Office bO-
nanza-the greatest, in the esti-
nation of this reporter, that
has ever been offered in any
branch of the amusement buSi-
ness.
"The story of Gabriel is the
story of present-day America
unemployment, starvation. rack
eteering, debt regulations by
foreign governments. Into this
picture walks a new President
of the United StateS-a party
President, a politician given to
making promises to voters with
out any thought of ever fulfill
ling them. The picture opens
at his Inauguration.
"The new Presidents first
meeting with his Cabinet un-
wells a Cabinet doing and think
ing of everything but to attack
the nations problems at hand.
That meeting starts and ends
with the boys Okaying a man
for the British Embassy. The
Presidents first meeting with
the news correspondents reveals
the same old StOry'-prOsperity
around the corner and no cor
ner in sight.
SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT
"A mysterious young woman
enters the Scene-and the
White House. She is the Presi-
dents confidential secretary,
hopeful, prayerfuI for JUDI
Hammond to DO something for
an America on the brink of
dissolution. He diSSembles.
"Then an accident mystic
riOuS coma which SuffuSeS the
Presidents consciousness for
weeks. He emergeS, suddenly
alive to all the cOuntry's ills.
He strips the red tape Of pOliti-
cal party government away
from the remedies. When gov
ernment officials protest, he
chucks them out unceremOni-
OuSly. When unemployed mil
lions threaten the White House,
he enliStS them under military
discipline, begins to revOlve the
wheels of industry as in the
war-withOut a cent of profit
to anyone this time.
Congress tries to interfere
to protect party bulwarkS. He
has to threaten martial law to
force it to adjourn sine die.
Then, alone and single-handed,
he proceeds to eliminate the
troubles of an America which is
basicaIIy sound. Gangsters who
try to hamper his immediate So
luton of the liquor problem are
cOurtmartialed by the United
States Army-ShOt beneath the
Statue Of Liberty by a firing
squad.
"The war debt problem threat
ems the peace of the world. He
holds a debt conference on the
deck of a dreadnaught, shows
off the United States Navy and
gives the world an ultimatum-
cut out war, and ornaments of
fabulous cost, balances budgets
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