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...Invisible Man may find the title of this picture misleading. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is not a sequel to The Invisible Man but a gloomy war film, in which Rains impersonates a hapless journalist named Paul Verin, who is harassed by shyness, poverty and the irony of fate. The title is a pretentious figure of speech. Properly speaking, Verin reclaims not his head but his brain. He is hired to write pacifist articles which make his employer famed. When the employer, after having betrayed Verin by entering a deal with munitions manufacturers, begins making motions at Verin...
More practical objections concerned the fate of Carnegie Hall and the fitness of the Opera House for orchestra concerts. Carnegie depends on the Philharmonic rental to survive as a concert hall. And the city needs Carnegie for the Boston and Philadelphia orchestra concerts as well as for individual musicians who draw big crowds. Toscanini felt that the merger offered no artistic profit to either organization, objected specifically to having concerts at the old Metropolitan where the acoustics are suitable only for opera. New Yorkers accepted his word as gospel although he begged the Orchestra's board members...
...case, whether the arrested man rebelled against the Soviets by word or by deed. First of all, you must ask him what class he belongs to, what is his extraction, what is his education and what is his profession. It is these questions that must decide the fate of the accused; this is the meaning and the substance of the Red Terror...
...minor roles in the play were well up to the standard set by the lead parts. The performance of Robert L. McKee '37 as a drunkon man who comes into the royal chambers as an unconscious prophet of fate, was particularly noticeable, as was that of Munro L. Lyeth '37 who was a young soldier reporting the appearance of a ghost to the queen...
...Doorway" was the unlucky picture and Charles Sheeler, a modern painter who specializes in photographic effects in his works, was the hapless artist who deserved a much better fate than to become a bone of contention...