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Charlie Chaplin is back, and he brings back with him the gay, mad tempo of the days when movies grinned and didn't chatter. There is the syncopated whirl from one wild gag into the next, slapstick at its subliming, and hands and eyes and faces that talk without torturing your ears and making you supply the gaps. You grasp it all while lolling at your ease. And best of all, you recall the happy days ten years ago when you sneaked out of the back yard at sunset, slapped down your dime on the counter that you could barely...
...Editor Tempo Los Angeles, Calif...
...Moore dedicated himself with the single-mindedness of a fanatic to the search for an "absolute prose." He imposed on himself "a rule of evenness, a rule against emotional emphasis, a refusal not only of anything that could be called a purple patch but of any conspicuous variation of tempo in response to a variation of mood...His aim was to write a prose independent of every colloquialism, every trick of phrase, every contemporary allusion that might make it obscure or tedious in the future." Thus followed his use of the Biblical "thee" and "thou" and his cultivation...
...island off East Africa together with the crew, passengers and cargo, mostly lions, of the tramp steamer Sea Dragon. East of Java was adapted from Gouverneur Morris' Tiger Island by able Screenwriter James Creelman, and regardless of its minor sins against credulity it has a reckless tempo and a tendency for killing off its cast, unusual and charming as a contrast to the current prissy mode of photographing people who sit around on sofas talking imitation Philip Barry...
...good show. The artistry of Miss Colbert's performance is matched by the smooth direction, and just the right tempo is maintained throughout. There are several good comedy scenes. The narcotic sister who goes on a hunger strike of some terrific duration--about half an hour. Both parts are excellently written and played, as is that of the butler. Michael Harret sings and acts his part will, but he's just a dummy, tossed in because a third man was needed...