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When William Shakespeare was ready to write the story of Cleopatra, he needed nothing more than pen, ink, paper and his own lively genius. Three centuries later George Bernard Shaw required no more equipment for the same task. But when Paramount put Cecil Blount DeMille to work on this well-worn old tale, that old-time director could not even get started without $750,000, a majority of the unemployed actors in Hollywood, ten crates of real grapes by airmail from South America, an $800 history book and a month of conferences aboard his yacht. Last week, after four more...
...hung upon his words. Yet there was little in them that was new- perhaps there is little he needs to say that would be new to an audience that never seems to tire of the old. "At most this speech was a patchwork of past phrases, old catchwords and well-worn arguments. . . ." Ambulance...
...Boston last fortnight. For a day or two no one, not even his Manhattan publishers, seemed to know where he was. Then he had stepped off the 20th Century Limited in Chicago, gone straight to a new dormitory at the south edge of the University campus with his three well-worn suitcases. He was using Chicago as a quiet base at which to prepare for his main mission in the U. S., the delivery of Cornell University's Messenger Lectures for 1934. Besides his ''Expanding Universe" talk he gave Chicago, while he was there, his more metaphysical...
...Hepburn of "Morning Glory" is an unsophisticated, stage-struck little girl from Vermont who comes to New York to become a famous actress--just like that. This doesn't sound like a very promising beginning; as a matter of fact it sounds like the start of half a dozen well-worn situations:--virginity adrift on Forty-Second Street; the smooth seducer with moustache; then rescue by a whisker...
When a Frenchman's well-worn leather purse is threatened his thoughts turn forcibly to Justice, he begins to talk louder & louder, may end by erupting with other Frenchmen into unseemly acts. Last week 10,000 solid citizens from various parts of France, members of the National Federation of Taxpayers, met in Paris, clamored for Justice until suddenly, shouting "On to the Chamber!", they started a rush for the Chamber of Deputies, grappled with Paris police, had to be beaten back by ornate cavalry of the Garde Républicaine...