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...Pending approval by stockholders this week, Delineator was to be liquidated, its readership swallowed by Pictorial Review, to give that Hearst property a whacking monthly circulation of over 3,000,000.* April issue now in the hands of the printers will be the last of Delineator as such. The pattern service of Butterick Co., Delineator's publishing parent, will continue separately. No other Delineator department will survive...
...sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...
Criminal Lawyer (RKO) adds nothing to the standard pattern of courtroom melodramas. Engaged to a girl he does not love and working for a notable criminal, shyster Lawyer Brandon (Lee Tracy) ditches both when he encounters a pretty streetwalker (Margot Grahame) in night court and when he is offered the district attorney's job. This lands him in both marital and legal hot water which reaches the boiling point in the inevitable courtroom finale. Portraying four other court battles as well, Criminal Lawyer obtains its only tinge of interest from the clever cross-questioning tactics of Lawyer Brandon...
...river bank. Good shots: An expert logger nonchalantly retrieving a water bottle from the notch in a fir tree, just as the notch closes when the tree falls; the timber country color photographed from the air, with fir-covered mountains spread out to blue horizons in the pattern of enormous deep-green surf...
...kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which, dying, she struggles to her dressing table to rouge her pale cheeks when he comes to visit her for the last time, have become a master pattern for generations of romantic tragedies...