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...writing of the Meilhac-Halevy libretto by Director Dantchenko himself, proved to be an unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic purists. The setting, which depicted a market place in ancient Lima, Peru, was in the best Russian tradition of a colorful and decorative, essentially two-dimensioned background. And against it the elaborate perfection of the actors' costume and make-up? created a Rembrandt effect of warmth and color...
...Turpin as a bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough...
...Patsy. Barry Conners wrote a play called Applesauce, which Chicago took to its heart and nourished for some 27 weeks. When the entertainment turned to Manhattan that suspicious and exacting metropolis hoisted its nose and said no. The Patsy had a similar background of authorship and Chicago success. The metropolis viewed it tepidly before the opening. Whereupon it turned out to be a decidedly amusing U. S. comedy of love and kindred complications, and Broadway critics were pleasantly and enthusiastically surprised. Perhaps they liked the leading actress best of all. She is Claiborne Foster, a capable young miss more...
Evenings in Russia are long? how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...
...Carmack, cartoonist to the Christian Science Monitor, key-noted events in Italy last week with the caption "MUZZLE-INI" over the sketch of an Italian peasant, gagged and muzzled by a steel mask labeled "Fascism," while Il Duce, throned in the background, looked grimly...