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Latest-born adult male of their line is that chronic wanderer and ne'er-do-well Lord Edward Montagu, 29. godson of King Edward VII, who last made news in February when, after several false starts, he abandoned his hot-dog stand at Maidenhead and enlisted in France's Foreign Legion, only to be ousted promptly as physically unfit. Last week in London's Old Bailey his profligate father William Angus Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail...
...ADULT INTEREST-Macmillan...
...Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through an interminable succession of overdecorated scenes, in which flashbacks show the progress of the love...
Aside from the question of production "courage," Black Fury succeeds superbly in its real aim, which is to be exciting. Its producers say what there is to be said on both sides, particularly the miners' side, with clarity, completeness and adult human understanding. Its subject may make Black Fury one of the most talked of pictures of the year. Michael Curtiz' direction and Paul Muni's superb performance make it one of the most worth-while dramatically. Good shot: Joe Radek getting gaily...
...brain acquires its final pattern and shape, although only about four-fifths adult size, between the fourth and sixth years. "In other words, we send our children to school when all their mental faculties are potentially present, awaiting education to transform them into abilities...