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...Valera actually becomes president, time alone will reveal his strength. Probably, like most extremists, he will find his rashness modified by responsibility. In the tariff. England has a weapon more powerful than an army. In any case, Ireland's from antic approach to political realities gives a new force to the lines of the poet who said...
Penrod and Sam (First National). A minor cycle of juvenile comedies (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Skippy, Forbidden Adventure) has immeasurably improved this branch of entertainment in the cinema. Where such pictures a few years ago attempted nothing more ambitious than antic farce, as exemplified in the Our Gang comedies, there is now a fashion for being lifelike as well as funny. The fashion is eminently becoming to Penrod...
...Amorous Antic. Harlow Balsam (Frank Morgan) is engaged in writing a play which incorporates such progressive features as a girl on a bicycle and a bishop, both nude, but appearing in total darkness. His wife Sena (Phoebe Foster) is painting a geometrical portrait of Percival Redingote (Alan Mowbray) who, in turn, is about to carve a bust of Sena. Because Miss Foster is a brittle beauty, Mr. Morgan an absurd farceur, and Jo Mielziner, who designed the scenery, knows how to burlesque the futuristic trend, this satire on ultra-modern estheticism by Novelist Ernest Pascal (The Marriage...
...Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks, it is by the force of his idea rather than by his modern manners: "Normality is only a question of statistics." Other books: Antic Hay, Two or Three Graces, Point Counter Point...
...double entendre which is allowed to appear, lucid and poetical, between obstetrical jokes, the acerbities of the Pickle women and the antic gaieties of Hatchways and Fawcett. is ascribable to the author of the play, Kate Parsons. That it makes of The Commodore Marries so funny, so human, so sad a play is doubtless due largely to the direction of Arthur Hopkins and to the sympathy and skill of Walter Huston's acting...