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Review of the film “Delicious” at the Fox Theatre.

The review discusses how the story line is a typical “Cinderella story” about a poor girl achieving love and happiness. The ideas of people moving between the worlds of wealth and poverty, and people from humble means achieving great things were related to social issue films and represented an idealism that was soothing for film-goers during the Depression. By Uri Friedman

Review of the film “Sunny Side Up” at the Fox-Locust Theatre.

The review focuses a great deal on the novelty of sound in the film, demonstrating the attraction of this new technology for a pre-Depression movie-going audience.  By Uri Friedman