Word: pleasingness
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Arthur Houghton's grant has added a pleasing bit of architecture to the Yard, as well as furnished Widener's Treasures with a long-needed accessibility. Less important, perhaps, it has provided a refreshing footnote to the story of a University in wartime.
THE CRIMSON THREAD-Lilian Lauferfy -Simon & Schuster ($2). A trio of deaths in the family of a rich Connecticut autocrat is cannily elucidated by a roughhewn local law officer, with considerable help from a bright girl radio scripter. Emotion sometimes clouds the plot, but the general effect is pleasing.
Nor is Paris Calling likely to. A melodrama of espionage and counterespionage, its title is the password of a secret shortwave radio station, over which Miss Bergner sends information by piano for decoding in England. Miss Bergner plays second fiddle to a gadgety plot which seldom gives her a chance...
This apparent attempt to build Miss Temple into another "America's Sweetheart" looks like waste of a tidy talent for emotional acting. Shirley Temple is by no means awkward, as her age implies. She now has a pleasing voice and smile, nicely self-contained manner, and a better acting...
He closes his book with a few loud notes of hope: One is a salute to the FBI, which has, with the collaboration of some 150,000 local police, put counter-espionage on a national basis. One is a tribute to those "unknown soldiers," the private citizens of Occupied Europe...