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...chief merit of the show is its excellent dancing. The Modern Dancers group, headed by Dorothy Fox and Esther Junger, offers some truly brilliant choreography in the modern tones. The music is good and provides a satisfying rhythmic background. Among the more amusing song-offerings were Eve Arden's rippingly funny take-off on the American Legion, D. A. R. ladies, entitled "Send for the Militia," and Evelyn Dall's striking presentation of "Selling Sex." Avis Andrews' singing of "You Ain't So Hot," is very effective. Jimmy Save, the comic headliner, is well known for his pantomimic nonsense, which...
...think, be an altogether admirable job if Mr. Strauss had not at one point joined a long line of authors whose seriously intended effects have been rudely let down by their failure to imagine accurately all the physical circumstances which in a world of fact would form the background for their action. He chronicles the adventures of Miss Hope Davis, teacher of kindergarten in Low Plains, Kansas, returning from Europe on the "Ile-de-France," a ship which, from all accounts, is manned in an alert and seamanly fashion. Yet Miss Davis, falling in love with a young...
...this point in Les Miserables Victor Hugo wrote a five-chapter treatise on the horrors of his next background, the Paris sewers. In his presentation of Valjean's final flight, Director Richard Boleslawski contrives to convey a comparable sense of horror...
...most fundamental human emotions are convincingly portrayed against the solid background of good Connecticut farm soil in "The Wedding Night." Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Helen Vinson, and Tarka, a Chinese cook, all take full advantage of good parts...
...nine paintings, "Cyclamen," "Spider Wort," "Yellow Iris," "Spring Flowers," "Victorian Parlour," "Autumn Flowers," "Peonies," "Still Life," and "Bee Balm" are arranged over the book shelves, which are covered with light brown paper to give a monotone background...