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...impersonators of Sherlock Holmes must stand comparison with William Gillette, who created the role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings...
...churchmen perennially watch for signs of a U. S. religious revival, are perennially pleased to think they see such signs. An unkind blow were two surveys of U. S. opinion released this week. Not conclusive (because neither provided any conclusive comparison with the past), they were nevertheless far from encouraging...
Satevepost readers did not know that Author Marquand's original Wickford Point was twice as long and nearly twice as biting. This week the book appeared in its uncut form, promising to be another best-seller of the stature of The Late George Apley. Comparison of the two versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction...
...wanton lawlessness" should have been forthcoming from the United States State Department. Healthy progress away from isolation and toward a constructive program of cooperation has been the theme of all Secretary Hull has done. But closer scrutiny of the high-sounding diplomatic terms in which the statement was couched; comparison with the method used in the now-famous frontier-on-the-Rhine statement; and understanding of the international temper--only temporarily one of apathetic resignation--into which it was injected, all point to Sumner Welles' statement as one of the most important single incidents since Munich...
...time, Harvard cannot consider her labor problem solved for good and all. For the present, a very liberal contract has been signed, and one which rectifies real injustices. Wage increases, a longer term of employment, and the all-important promise of an eventual closed shop can be justified by comparison with conditions of employment elsewhere, and by the fact that 85 per cent of the workers are already members of the Union. But concession today cannot be interpreted as indication of probable weakness tomorrow. It was only because of the basic willingness to modify unreasonable demands--for an $18 wage...