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Goodwin interprets his part with the utmost care, the only possible objection being that he may be a little too assiduous. For the emotion stays pretty close to the surface, and therefore Goodwin's elaborate explanations with hands and voice are somewhat gratuitous. Bettina Gray may likewise be a little too vehement. Perhaps the difficulty is that they are designing their speeches to carry farther than their tiny playhouse permits. At any rate, this excessive elucidation insures that the right interpretation be given. Lois Hall is ideally supple for her part of the sculptress. When throbbing in response to some...
Having voyaged for a month through Hawaii, Japan, China, Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin and his leading lady. Paulette Goddard, departed for Singapore. In Singapore reports circulated that Chaplin had wired his agent: "Do utmost to arrange marriage." Archdeacon Graham White sniffed, flatly announced that his Anglican Cathedral would under no circumstances be used to marry the junketing pair...
...plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged. Changeless also is the need that use of these tools should be taught in the elementary schools with utmost simplicity and absolute certainty. Not different is the need-though greatly more difficult the achievement-that the essential contributions of modern science, the principal values of man's recent learning, should be brought to equal clarity of statement and instruction in our colleges...
...Erna Hanfstaengl, sister of his friend "Putzy"; Frau Winifred Wagner, widowed daughter-in-law of the composer; Margaret Slezak, daughter of a Viennese tenor; the Realmleader's late niece Greta Granbald; and the German cinema's lithe-limbed Leni Riefenstahl, who was quoted as having said with utmost respect of Adolf Hitler, "The Realmleader could not love except platonically." (TIME...
...this time Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria went about Paris with utmost decorum, accepted his entourage of detectives with no effort either to entertain or to elude them, and moved Parisian Bulgarians to cry: "Every inch a Tsar! Long live His Majesty...