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...Colonel de Basil has insured against marriage; dark dynamic Tamara Tamounova and Irina Baronova. The greatest of these, says Critic Haskell, is Baronova, 15, ashy, pale-haired Russian emigrée who grew up in the Balkans, studied in Paris with the Imperial ballerina, Olga Preobrajenska. Baronova's technic is amazing. She can do 32 spins (fouettés) without stopping. But more, her dancing has the same subtle, unearthly quality which marked the early playing of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Author Haskell prides himself on his collection of ballet slippers, although as a balletomaniac he pales beside...
...really inspired, makes his interpretation of the role one of the most subtle and penetrating within memory. Every nuance of feeling is brought out with just the right degree of force. The minor characters, who are innumerable, are almost without exception excellent. The photography makes use of a realistic technic that is yet to be seen in this country and that is amazingly effective...
Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last...
...generally agreed that the U.S. is the unsafest place in the world to have a baby. Some reasons: abortions; faulty technic of physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...
...favor of the leading lady, and returns to her home. The play is nevertheless a success, but the manager and the playwright ignore it to hurry after her with separate proposals of marriage. Surprisingly, the manager arrives first. Years of novelizing have given Booth Tarkington a glib though obvious technic which he employs with smooth professional skill. Lily Mars repeats his familiar formula of the heroine who is gaily and innocently wanton, and much better at heart than she lets on to be. Not stage people but marionettes are the characters of this book, jiggling from visible wires...