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Tragedy at the Quarter Pole, a piece which has the curious, wooden silence of a sporting audience when somebody gets killed: a jockey's white legs, half doubled up, seen through a crowd on the track: two men bringing a mattress; an interne bending over; in the background the striped quarter pole, and a jagged arm thrown up by the broken fence...
First Lady is carried off with an unusual vivacity by Kay Francis. Its main drawback-that, as in most Kaufman plays, its crises are epigrammatic rather than emotional-is counteracted by its novel background and its general impudence. It is further notable for being Verree Teasdale's (Mrs. Aaolphe Menjou) first picture since her serious illness in October 1936. Her blonde coloring makes her a handsome foil to the darkling insipidity of Kay Francis, whom she outplays in their scenes together...
...West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia Woolf's Orlando...
Educated as a sculptor and painter Jensen reveals his artistic background in all his silver work. His designs are well-balanced and full of rhythm. The color and texture of his works are intended, in his own words, to suggest the "play of moonlight on water...
...teachers. But certainly the thought of extending them to any other profession was not considered. Medicine, law, and the other branches of professional careers were taught by practise. Today, however, it is unquestioned that these fields can only be developed by men who have first of all a firm background of the sciences and technical training which is primarily obtained in universities. In governmental departments this should be particularly applicable...