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Outstanding in the collection and one of Rogers' most notable works is the large-sized, two volume edition of the Oxford Lectern Bible, which is beautifully displayed in the center of the hall. Designed with utmost simplicity, the huge clear print is readable from a surprising distance...
...talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity, who went crazy. Mr. Holton's wife picked up every crazy...
...next time he met him in the Yard, he bowed, smiled profusely, and set about reeling off his memorized speech, involving the utmost profanity regarding the professor, his course, his ancestry, Harvard and the world in general. "I compliment you on your enterprise in picking up so many English idioms outside of your regular work," replied the professor, and the student left thinking what a good impression he had made...
...heroine are highly respectable jewel thieves, and when the picture opens they are engaged in competition, although the ultimate merger does not come as a complete surprise. The strength of the picture lies in the ingenious methods by which priceless diamonds are successfully stolen and "high-jacked" with the utmost case. The film marks a departure from the commonplace and rounds out a bill that is entertaining, if not breath-taking...
...Green's home town local, whose financial secretary is Mr. Green's brother, would probably stand by him, Mr. Lewis proposed to try him before the International's executive board, later before the full Mine Workers' convention -where Mr. Lewis could employ to the utmost his flair for good theatre...