I'm a day or two late on this, but the 1936 classic made its Turner Classic debut earlier this week, in the nicest shape that I've ever seen it (and it's been a long time between viewings). Whether it's the restored version available on R2 DVD I cannot say, but it was certainly steps up in quality from what I recall seeing. (It ran 96 minutes, not the 113 listed in TCM's programming article about the film.) I'm sure it'll be in rotation now, so keep your eyes peeled.

Bob, my cyber-buddy the DVD Savant, Glenn Erickson, is something of an authority on this film and its versions.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s65things.html

But he was my cyber-buddy first, Bob... :) In any event, thanks for the suggestion. I think this may have been that restored version.

Oh, that's funny! Super guy!

The extremely knowledgeable Savant notwithstanding, Nick Cooper appears to be the THINGS TO COME expert to end all THINGS TO COME experts, and is a contributor to the restored DVD. Here's his excellent site, which covers just about everything you'd want to know about all the various versions:

THINGS TO COME