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...favor of the production. Robert Keith gives a generally delightful impression of Dickens with all his virtues and not a few of his faults. We are introduced to Dickens the courageous, Dickens the admirable, Dickens the lovable; but we may also catch glimpses of Dickens the proud and vain. Above all we get a clear insight into the struggles of a man whose sympathies and view of life were not those of the dominant forces of his day. And however successful his crusade on behalf of the "Oliver Twists" may seem to us, we see also his personal defeat...
...gadgeteer. Once he fixed a radio after an expert had tinkered in vain eight hours. He wins photographic contests, chats over the radio incognito, and is often to be seen testing the country's roads in the saddle of a motorcycle. When he finds a bumpy stretch, he gives the local boss holy hell...
...John Chapman bought a publishing house, and later bought the great, liberal Westminster Review. Chapman, says Author Haight, was vain, humble, shrewd, generous, a quack and a reformer. "Though he refused to publish a novel containing an objectionable love scene, he maintained in the heart of mid-Victorian London a household no novelist would then have dared to describe...
...many this unity was a source of spiritual power," he said. "Today, by contrast, we admittedly look in vain for cultural unity, except in totalitarian lands...
Here is another one of those exalting, exasperating Warner epics that drag on indefinitely being just too, too documentary about everything. Edward G. Robinson as Julius Reuter and Edna Best as his wife try in vain to sell their sickening sentimentality as old world charm. Mr. Robinson should stick to gangsters instead of dabbling in the German bourgeoisie. And Mr. Bassermann could also be a little less Continental and a little more convincing in his part...