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...therefore, he resorts to that old escape--one frowned upon by maladjusted psychologists--to barken to those gentle soul who "tell tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is thrusting itself forward to a dismal future the Vagabond is thrusting himself back upon an epic past. He will listen to Professor Rollins discuss the early epics in Server 11 at 10 this morning...
Next day the sun came out and the strange epic of Frankie Parker's adolescent turmoils vanished from sports pages, editorials and columns as quickly as the puddles on the West Side Tennis Club's courts. Frank Shields, playing better than ever before in his life, took one set and twice missed the point that would have given him another before he lost to Champion Perry, 4-6, 6-4, 6-8, 0-6. Three days after the schedule had called for the championships to end, Perry, Allison, Budge, Grant, Wood remained in the men's single...
Alexander Korda's trip to Hollywood last week was not his first. Son of a well-to-do land agent on the estate of a Hungarian bishop, he became a schoolteacher at 14, a reporter at 18, got into cinema by translating subtitles. Starting with an inferior epic based on the Freudian theory of dreams, he began to produce pictures of his own, became the No. 1 cineman of Hungary after the War. This trifling distinction served as a mild irritant. He went to Vienna, made a hit called The Prince and the Pauper, married an actress named Maria...
What makes this trivial investigation of a painful subject more entertaining than most musicomedies is that it: 1) offers a variation, however slight, on the backstage epic; 2) includes a diversity of subsidiary entertainment features, climaxed by the efforts of Florence Gill as an imitator of chicken noises; 3) offers Patsy Kelly the first chance the cinema has given her to prove that she is probably the most expert specialty comedienne in Hollywood...
...politics as in fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression...