Picture Series as Tarzan And Hardy Family; Former Successes Re-vamped Hollywood never seems to have enough of a good thing—provided the thing is light enough. What with going West" and "riding high," the Hardy Family" has returned to the screen half a dozen times already, and pretty soon Andy Hardy is going io have "spring fever" for the bene-06 of movie-goers all over the country, writes a contributor to the New York "Times." J. P. Marquand's Mr. More has travelled from one end of the world to the other in leaps of seven or eight reels at a time, being mysterious, taking a chance, going to Danger Island and now taking a vacation. Not a real vacation, for Twentieth Century-Fox apparently can't afford that yet.
It will be remembered that "Topper" had to come back and "take a trip," too. Then Dr. Kildare returned a little less young and a little less popular. Tarzan can always be relied upon to climb trees and howl at the moon. But it does take a certain amount of ingenuity to vary the trees every time. Schéhérazade, for all her thousand and one nights, would seem like a tongue-tied tyro beside the yarn-spinners of Hollywood, With all the to-be-continued pictures that have issued from the studios of America, it would be hard to find even one of a particularly serious nature. There is nothing surprising aboutthat, because Hollywood has rarely planned its serials in advance. A picture is tossed into the market and if it brings in more than an expected gross a sequel is soon prepared and sent out into the world again for further successes. Those things cannot be planned in advance. "They ate too much in the nature of after-thoughts.
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