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...film photographed in proper pre-Mazdaian darkness, it becomes, after a while, a tiresome puzzle even to identify the various members of the large and distinguished cast, many of whom possess faces of singular peculiarity. The scenario is not easy to follow, either. This is because the numerous sub-plots have not been integrated and are told in quick episodic fashion which is further aggravated by the slashing of whole scenes from the American version. Film continuity, while not always a prescribed virtue, would have been helpful here because no single character, not even Nicholas, is given enough footage...
...dilemma caused by the complexity of the sub-plots becomes almost amusing towards the end, when the central character is forced to rush from one death-bed to another in order to tidy up the loose ends of the plot and conclude the tale. Of course, much of this is as Dickens wrote it, and there might be no justice in complaint were it not for that masterpiece of last year as an example of what can be done with Dickens...
...three times, she lay flat on her back with eyes bandaged for a year, finally regained her sight). Alicia, the best of the younger classical dancers, had seldom done modern dance before. But, right after dancing the queen in Swan Lake, she returned to the stage as Lizzie, to sub for ailing Nora Kaye. Alicia, as much as Agnes, made Fall River Legend an opening-night success...
...Draper. For the lush background for his party, Railroader Young had depended on Interior Decorator Dorothy Draper, who had spent more than a year getting Greenbrier ready. She had broken through large areas of white stucco walls and moved Greenbrier's lobby from the second floor to sub-ground level. In it she placed $4,000 worth of palms (to be replaced as needed) to give an outdoor effect. Elsewhere, she used some of her typical tricks. To make some of the cavernous rooms more cozy, she set up latticed, movable walls. A typical bedroom had sky-blue walls...
Further Council action, in the event of a rebuff by the Faculty Committee, was a distinct possibility, Bingham said. As chairman of the Council sub-committee on student activities, he declared that he would ask the Council to press the matter, probably at its next meeting...