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...Candlelight," the other picture, features Elissa Landi, and Paul Lukas in a high-society comedy scramble. Elissa is not at her best, but she is bearable. The plot is intricate, one you can puzzle out for yourselves; it involves maids and butlers taking the place of their mistresses and masters, while the masters and mistresses live in sin, and while the butlers and maids think each other other than they seem; it's a good picture...
...Fisher does succeed, in "Passions Spin the Plot," in keeping his straight-forward method at an unusually high level. Most of the irrelevancies are later reclaimed and justified; a clear continuity of impression has been preserved. Vridar Hunter, an Idaho farm boy, first of his line to enter the doors of a college, emerges from the second volume as a Wasatch alumnus; the record of his transformation is a careful, and a revealing, one. His problems are the old problems of youth; their setting has made them more intense and more bitter. Sex and ambition and disillusionment come sharply...
...Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such a plot as Trinity's old churchyard is based on the fact that it is an open space in the shadows of downtown Manhattan. If it were sold for building its worth would decline, dragging down with it the worth of nearby buildings which overlook it. Hence its value is "fiction...
...administration recognizes this situation and is asking the farmers in their contracts to give the exiles a plot of land which they can cultivate for their own sustenance and that they be permitted to cut wood for fuel...
...economic and political future of the South, the plague of yellow fever as a fearful background, the duel, the darkies and pickaninnies, the decayed family, and finally, the deserted mansion. But Davis is not true to the romance of "swords and roses"; he fumbles a little psychopathology into the plot, and his play quavers ridiculously for two acts between Eugene O'Neill and a minstrel show. At the last the dying hero is borne out on a litter, while an offstage chorus chants "Oh, Lord, Ah'm comin'" or some like...