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Pygmalion (Gabriel Pascal) is Bernard Shaw's famed comedy about the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a lady by a phonetics expert; the simultaneous transformation of the phonetics expert into a human being by the flower girl. As the first authorized, full-length screen version of a play by the world's No. 1 living dramatist, Pygmalion could scarcely have avoided being important. It could easily have avoided being good. As produced by Gabriel Pascal and acted by Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, it is not merely good but practically perfect...
Most charming piece: Self-Portrait with Heart, Frida's record of a period of unhappiness with Diego, showing her with tears on her cheeks, a ferrule sticking through the hole in her body where her heart was, two tiny imps playing seesaw on the ferrule. Political bit: a full-length portrait of Frida holding a scroll inscribed: "To Leon Trotsky, with all love, I dedicate this painting, 7 November...
...rights generally go to the oldest and richest customer-famed, slightly fabulous Reader's Digest. The stout little Digest totes the biggest plate because it pays the biggest prices, has kept the good will of its hosts by refusing advertising. Sometimes it makes other magazines presents of free, full-length articles which it then digests and "reprints...
...crossed the continent upon the first major trial-balloon ascension of the White House Janizariat, which seeks data on 1940. Ostensibly out to whoop up the New Deal for the Congressional elections and attend a few ceremonies at which his presence was appropriate, Mr. Ickes went armed with eight full-length addresses to deliver in twelve days (besides informal talks and short speeches...
Five of a Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...