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Last week, when the curtain went up in London's Cambridge Theater, 41-year-old Serge Lifar, fit as ever but fatter, lay prostrate on a rock, in the faun's familiar costume: spotted, close-fitting tights, and naked from the waist up. Debussy's gentle, reedy music was lost in a balcony din of hisses, boos and catcalls. Someone yelled "collaborator" in French; a more irreverent Britisher in the gallery called out "hot dog!" As Lifar picked up a scarf to caress it (it was left behind by a wood nymph) a well-timed whistle split...
Solace of Loneliness. "The Young Marshal and I had not seen each other for eight long years. This time he found my beard had turned white, and I thought he had got much fatter...
...spite of a cut in the subscription rates from $3.50 to $2.50 to meet the competition, the Crimson emerged fatter than ever financially, and by 1906, the business board, having returned the rates for subscribers to $3.00, was bringing in enough advertising to clear sizeable profits...
...along the twisting, rotting jungle paths; it can be measured only in dead Japs. On few of the islands are the Japs withering on the vine. They have to be knocked off. They have tremendous ammunition dumps and stockpiles of weapons, and they grow enough food themselves to get fatter and stronger than the Japs at home...
...James Wong Howe's beautiful photography, to Scriptwriter John Howard Lawson (who also wrote Sahara), and to the eight Germans who, barring some excesses forced on them by the script, make up a supporting cast the like of which is dreamed of but seldom seen. In his fatter, more difficult role Paul Muni is as fine as they are so long as he takes it easy, but when he gets busy as an actor, his sincere, carefully paragraphed work seems unreal beside the Germans' snapshot authenticity...