Word: real
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Parliament outlawed crime comics. The broad new law provides up to two years' imprisonment for anyone who "makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells" or possesses "for any such purposes" a comic which "exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially the commission of crimes, real or fictitious...
...least one observer thought the whole question was academic. The day after the Louis-Valentino exhibition, Manager Tex Sullivan withdrew his fighter, Lee Oma, from a scheduled ten-round match with Louis in Detroit. Complained Sullivan: "Those aren't exhibitions, they're real wars . . . Louis isn't planning a comeback, he's already back...
Thanks to Comedienne Channing's song numbers and to some fast, youthful Agnes de Mille dance routines, the show achieves an air of liveliness in places. What it never achieves is any real feeling of the '20s, or the right nostalgia for them...
Metropole suggested that a Ross by any other name is just no Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did have funny moments; but they were mere lampposts on a long, dark, unpaved, downhill road...
...dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund Lewandowski had chosen the Three Kings for a subject, and turned the Magi into a composite playing card. The result was not as handsome as real playing cards, but it had style and force...