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...Maney's principal problems was to collect enough ushers for ordinary road shows, while he was overrun with ushering talent during the weeks when we would have The Chocolate Soldier, Merry Widow and like extravaganzas of the day. Marie Dressier and even highbrows like Geraldine Farrar packed 'em in, including dozens of unneeded ushers...
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE-Robert Nathan -Knopf ($2). A starved artist, his talent frozen, meets a mysterious child in Manhattan's Central Park who is a ghost of both past and future, grows years older with every few months' gap between meetings. Through drawings and portraits of her the artist attains fame & fortune; he loses her, at last, to the great New England Hurricane. Readers who can willingly succumb to Robert Nathan's stealthy, gifted, perfumed-Mickey Finn prose will be rewarded with chills from the time-tricks, gently idealized sexual suspense, occasionally a gentle, specialized Nathan...
...that can be found in both Delacroix and Gericault, together with a few traces of Matisse, coupled with the photographic accuracy that characterizes any good magazine illustrator. And it is lamentable that a few of his paintings are good. I say lamentable because those pieces which do show real talent only serve to accentuate the weak sort of eclecticism with which the majority of his work is stamped...
...ardent admirers. She likes to wear them to Hollywood hot spots, but she also scrubs her own garage floor on all fours. Blue-eyed and flaxen-haired, she tempers Madeleine Carroll's cool gorgeousness with some of Mary Martin's warmth and a richer voice. The talent scout who uncovered her in Vienna wired: "This is the kind of dame who would look naked wearing a fur coat...
...Heel Editor is not quite the complete Southern landscape its author, in his preface, intends; it is a strictly middle-class picture, gets the rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary talent, it contains almost as fine U. S. writing as Twain, Lardner, The Congressional Record. With no "science" at all, it is a document comparable to the two Middletowns...