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...godliness of trouble-making women he finds already attacked from the pen of Mark Twain: "These women make me darned tired who try to take in God as a silent partner without his consent." There is nothing new here, save where the new psychology feeds the flame of masculine resentment...
Song of the Flame (First National). Technicolor, elaborate staging, good Gershwin tunes and 5,000 voices have been assembled in this reproduction of a Broadway operetta. Bernice Claire is supposed to be a sort of Russian Joan of Arc; you are led to believe that the theme song she sings brings about the Revolution. It is extravagantly unreal, entirely out of the tradition of naturalistic cinema. Audiences who like operetta and audiences in the country who have never had much chance to decide whether they like it or not may find Song of the Flame to their taste. Others...
...written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...
...land, so unique in the abundance and tameness of its wild life, that one can approach to within a few feet of wandering monkey bands, catch armadillos with one's bare hands, and startle gorgeous blue and flame macaws, the giants of the parrot family from nearby branches, is not a mythical Paradise, but Guanacaste, isolated, northwestern province of Costa Rica, in Central America...
...newcomers from Shakespeare-land, and the players felt this coolness, and took their own time about setting in motion the action of the play. Only at one other time, during the period of mutual misunderstandings, accusations, and challenges, and the final slow denouement of Act V, did the swift flame of the action flicker a little; and the blame for this lapse can as well be laid at the door of the playwright Will Shakespeare, as it can upon the actors. During most of the three hours, the drama flowed forward quickly; here, the little complications of plot caused greater...