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...When (book, music & lyrics by Jack McGowan, Ray Henderson & Ted Koehler; McGowan & Henderson, producers). Sounder entertainment than most of its kind, Say When presents no innovations but several elaborations on the hoary old pattern of musical comedy. There are two pairs of lovers-a vaudeville team which has met a couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt...
...power of the author to transmit these instinctive feelings and thoughts by a mere description of material things. It is by allusion and implication that these realistic descriptions become more than more enumerations and the subtle skill of Bunin in arranging and presenting the details in an artistically wover pattern gives a latency of meaning that is forceful and compelling. He knows life and love and communicates the sensuous expression of these naturally and convincingly...
Recreation time for the men prisoners of New York County Penitentiary came one cheerful morning last week. A guard at the end of the long recreation room, through whose windows the sun laid a pattern of bright stripes, watched the frowzy prisoners shuffle from their cells to walk, talk, or to shoot dice for cigarets & candy...
...Astaire busy for a year in Manhattan and London, RKO's most apparent change was to insert an accent and an extra e in the last word of the title. This should cause no greater harm than mispronunciation among cinemaddicts. For the rest, the picture sticks to the pattern of its footlight original, with satisfactory results. Fred Astaire is still the centre of whatever plot there is. A dancer on a European holiday, he pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist. There appear the impediments customary in musicomedy romance. Astaire is mistaken...
...brain; in the pituitary gland under the forebrain; in the thyroid, parathyroids and thymus in the neck; in the adrenals on top of the kidneys; in the pancreas at the stomach; in the stomach and intestines; in the ovaries and testicles. These hormones always work together. The pattern of their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than...