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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only 19 meetings, and Lucas-Tooth will not bother to attend all of them. There will be no street-corner meetings ("Not here, y'know," Cockshut shudders), and there will be no loudspeaker cars, except on the actual day of the election ("Don't approve of that sort of thing," says Cockshut aggressively). "Our only slogan," added Dr. Cockshut, "is 'Lucas-Tooth.' That will appear on 15,000 stickers...
...such length. In the second place, it contains a series of lush scenes, depicting people fondling jewels and purchasing bolts of cloth, which have only the remotest connection with the plot and are in themselves boring and trite. In the third place, the characters insist upon talking in some sort of Biblical patois, a bastard St. James version of English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting is ridiculously wooden. Hedy Lamarr spends almost all of her waking hours draped on a half-dozen strategically placed divans or leaning against...
...bambuco has a long history in the Colombian countryside. For 100 years, the backlanders of Boyaca and Tolima have danced and sung it with little heed from bogotanos or anybody else. The boyaquenses, a mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...
...beguiling Rosalind can do much to offset, if never quite obliterate, all this. Actress Hepburn's Rosalind reflects too much the player and too little the part. She seems the very best sort of performer -talented, cultured and good-looking-in college dramatics; she plays the whole thing more as a romp than a love story, and does beautifully by the blank verse while skating right over the poetry. William Prince makes a pleasantly lovesick Orlando, Ernest Thesiger a relentlessly melancholy Jaques...
...With an old friend's promise of a vague job, Joseph Gotten, an American hack writer of Western novelettes, arrives in Vienna just in time to rush to his benefactor's funeral. He learns that 1) his friend was mixed up in some sort of racket; and 2) his death may not have been as accidental as the dead man's Vienna associates-a seedy baron, a teak-faced doctor and a Rumanian fashionplate-so glibly assure...