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...terrible complex of Mexican women," said Diego, "is proved by the phenomenon that North American women, especially the most beautiful and well-formed, as soon as they reach Mexico and go to a semitropical climate, for example Cuernavaca, throw off their imported clothes and dress Mexicana . . . gaining 100% in their looks...
With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...
...groups hold themselves aloof from this complex interlocking directorate. The John Reed Society, a Marxist study group, takes no part in political action and limits itself to philosophic contemplation. The same can be said for the Student League for Industrial Democracy, which has renounced all former affiliation with the Liberal Union and the old Student Union to pursue its own quiet ways. Neither the Free Enterprise Society nor the all-but-extinct Conservative League meddle with action, following their own cautious paths unmolested...
During the thirties, a complicated "course reduction" system was in effect, by which a man who wrote a thesis needed fewer than the customary 16 courses to graduate. But the workings of the system proved so complex that at the Student Council's suggestion, the current thesis for honors was established in its stead. By 1941, however, the Faculty voted to abolish this course, but a series of wartime rulings has succeeded in keeping the system alive. Now, with the "duration" rules swept from the books, the thesis for honors course will perish unless a new vote...
Rarely is an actor able to give a thoroughly delineated portrayal of complex character in a classical drama after such a short rehearsal period as the Tributary schedule affords. Lack of time, and the shortage of experienced actors which forces some of the leading players to take as many as three or four principal parts during the Festival, can explain some of the disturbing innovations of the productions. At times the tragedies can become almost unbearable to one with any preconceptions of the drama...