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...Stark Reality. It was presently evident that, as often happens in the case of honest Stanley Baldwin, he did not mean his words in the sense conveyed by their sound to non-Britons. They implied that the Government, since it stands where it has always stood, had not upon that firm basis turned around. It had thus turned and the turning was the whole point of the Prime Minister's speech, but he had expressed himself like Humpty Dumpty.* A few minutes later, some 500 words further along, he told the House not to put too much trust...
...small trench cannon) in 1915, at first distributed it only to his fellow soldiers. After the War he branched out, took a partner, began to make journalistic history with a brand of fearless muckraking which caused French citizens' eyes to pop, French officials' hair to rise. With stark facts and photographs Crapouillot took out such disagreeable subjects as the origins and secret causes of the War; French mutinies of 1917; Wartime homosexuality and prostitution in the Army; false Wartime propaganda. It sandwiched learned, readable issues on automobiles, cinema, wines, books between explosive exposures of "The Truth About...
...Rose," playing this week at the Metropolitan, is a picture that is distinctly heartening to one who has begun to envision a complete relapse, if not collapse, of Hollywood production. Stark Young's book of the same name, contained the germ of a truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Laurence Stallings made the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized...
...formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate scenery. The Diaghilev company was peerless so long as it had Tamara Karsavina and Nijinsky who, according to Author Kirstein, established a landmark more with his stark choreography (L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Le Sacre du Printemps) than with his sensational leaps or his unsurpassed entrechats...
...works were not, in an everyday sense, always practical." His constructed works have been few in number: a street of modern houses in Paris; an apartment house in Geneva; Salvation Army headquarters in Paris; a number of country houses for rich esthetes in Switzerland, Holland, France, all in the stark, boxlike manner that critics like to call the International Style...