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...Franklin Roosevelt's second-floor study a seascape which has long hung above the Presidential chair was last week replaced by a full-length, life-sized portrait of John Paul Jones, whose most famed words were "I've just begun to fight...
...Skinner). Given 30 seconds to change her costume, makeup and wig, Cornelia Otis Skinner can be all things to all men. In the past she has specialized in monologues and short solo-dramas (The Wives of Henry VIII; The Loves of Charles II). Now she appears in her first full-length play. As usual, she is singlehanded...
MADAME CURIE-Eve Curie-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Unusual among biographies of parents for its combination of tenderness, good judgment and good writing (excellently transmitted in Vincent Sheean's translation), this is an unforgettable first full-length biography of the delicate, blonde Polish girl who rose from a governess to the world's greatest woman scientist. Famed for her hard-won discovery of radium, Madame Curie here emerges as most deserving of fame for her incorruptible stand against cashing in on it. Known for an emotional self-discipline as strict asher public reserve, her response to the accidental death...
...musical leads (Show Boat) to cinema character roles that carried her from youth to grey old age (Cimarron, Show Boat), put her foot down last year, demanded comedy. Her astonishing hoe-down interlude in Show Boat indicated her aptitude for lighter things. Theodora Goes Wild gave her the first full-length try. The Awful Truth establishes her with her peers, Claudette Colbert and Jean Arthur...
...diligent digging he gets out a fair amount, though most readers may fee! that his results are too pat and his method too tedious to make first-class reading. All the principal characters are treated to full-length portraits, their past histories recounted from birth, their separate thoughts, reactions and activities traced conscientiously through all the tangle of events. This leads to a great deal of harking-back at the beginning of the book, and to a scattering of dramatic effect thereafter, so that even the impact of the earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters...