Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roussel: Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Sounding like César Franck double-distilled, the late Albert Roussel's subtle, tenuous music is voluptuously performed...
...Major Albert Brill (U. S. A., ret.) declared himself a candidate for the job of World Dictator, then sailed for Europe to arrange for foreign publication of his four volumes (Individual Ascendency, Collective Ascendency, Ascendent Government, Citizenship) that explain all. Said he: "The world is practically a vast lunatic asylum...
Brother Rat (Warner Bros.-First National). An ingratiating survey of undergraduate language, baseball games, parades, hazing, discipline, finance and love-making at Virginia Military Institute, adapted from the 1936 Broadway hit and played, with appropriate youthful flourishes (see cut), by Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Jane Bryan and Eddie Albert...
...conceal a women in one's room, and to conceal the fact of being out after hours. Wayne Morris as Billy Randolph manages to get the just blame for all these deception,--being a big hearted with bungler with big ideas. Priscilla Lane is his inspiration, while Eddie Albert as the dumb athlete and William Tracy as the hazed "rat" both give complete performances...
...ambitious attempt at a rounded story of detection, in which Albert Campion expertly solves three deaths in a professional and artistic London circle. Not only is it a skilful mystery, with a solution that stays in solution until the end, but it has good characterizations, and is a competent job of novel-writing...