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...clearly kicked, but not very far, downstairs. There was important thinking to be done in India. If the Germans defeated the Russians, Germany would have a common frontier with India. This threat called for a Wavell, because it now appeared that Sir Archibald's special talent is what the British Army calls "Q," staff planning, rather than "O," operations...
Time was when the Marx Brothers' talent for violent lunacy whelped the belly-wrinkling hysteria of such superb stage and cinema farces as The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera. Big Store is just the Marx Brothers nostalgically going through the motions of helping Detective Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho Marx), Housekeeper Wacky (Harpo Marx) and Pianist Ravelli (Chico Marx) catch a killer in the bargain basement. Absurdity (as in the incredible chase sequences) is substituted for comedy...
...first novel by the brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker's Young Man With a Horn showed tinny enthusiasm, a specious literary talent; Dale Curran's Piano in the 'Band had a warmer enthusiasm, less talent. But even Send Me Down leaves a long way to go. Its author has had some actual experience as a jazz musician, has knowledge and taste about the music, can do good reportage on the professional and erotic life of his colleagues. Beyond...
Handy's admirable autobiography makes all this clear, and a lot more. It is a rich, direct, engaging set of personal stories, extremely well told. He was born 67 years ago in Florence, Ala. His Grandma Thumuthis foresaw musical talent in his big ears, but his preacher father, to whom hot music was Satan's own cajolery, used to warn him: "You are trotting down to Hell on a fast horse in a porcupine saddle." The boy broke away and wandered, sounded the depths of dereliction in "that gay capital of the sporting world, St. Louis." He married...
...first film, Drifters, an account of Britain's fishing industry, was a triumphant success. By 1929 the British Government was sold on documentaries, and the General Post Office and other Government departments established film units. They furnished the money; Grierson the talent...