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...with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French, Spanish, Italian, punctuating each touch with the words "et la!" Sometimes "et la!" was a celebration of his own passes, sometimes of Deladrier's or Santelli's; it was a threat, a joke, a warning, a boast, a congratulation. In his pale face, under a streak of hair, like shiny black paint, his eyes flashed; his mouth tipped up at one corner as though in sympathy with the outstretched left arm. Nedo Nadi is the son of Beppe Nadi, who coached every great...
...Strictly Dishonorable (TIME, Sept. 30) is still a smash hit. In Strictly Dishonorable Playwright Sturges exhibits a talent for writing risque themes and a romanticism as all-pervading as that of Grimm and Hans Andersen. But he is not yet a playwright of stature. He can crack a smart joke, can treat sex with refinement; can also devise such ill-assembled, trivial drama as Recapture, which deals with the efforts of an ex-wife (Ann Andrews) and ex-husband (Melvyn Douglas) to regain the bliss of their honeymoon in its original vicinity near Vichy, France. The man becomes practically convinced...
...Paris (Fox). The assumption of special characteristics belonging to special classes or races-characteristics which stay the same no matter what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke must be a pinchpenny, so the two Frenchmen who follow a roughneck sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This...
...taken the form of a society for the protection of scrubwomen, may or may not be funny, depending largely on the age of the observer and the particular type of humor which he most enjoys. But it is apparent even for those with the most liberal appreciation of a joke, that the effort has received far more publicity than it merits. For some reason, during the entire scrub-women episode the authorities have been in an acute condition of nervous excitement, and now have gone to the trouble of making a statement to the effect that this student society...
...Worse still, the Rumanian note was an echo (by request) of Statesman Stimson's reminder that Russia must not steal anything from anybody. Mr. Stimson had managed to get less than a half dozen of the 57 Kellogg Pact nations to send such reminders, but in Moscow the joke was wearing very thin...