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...Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending...
...today, banal thoughts of commercialism make graceless retreat before a tide of grey and gold. For thirty-seven years West Point has met Harvard, smartly, proudly, cleanly even in the days of flying wedges and greased uniforms. It is but a tithe of the time that John Harvard's spirit has hovered over the Yard, but it is long enough to prove that Harvard continues to enjoy the rivalry of officers and gentlemen...
...Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever it is put. . . . The Jewish businessman's genius is . . . almost banal beside this astonishing Lord Reading. . . . He is the finished product of a century of civilized treatment, the beautiful reappearance of the noble, polished...
...brilliance of Jean Cocteau, the cold amorality of Andre Gide, turn with relief to the sympathetic charm, the Judaic kindliness, of Author Maurois. His ironic fire, at its fiercest only kindled laughter, never burnt anyone. An unembarrassing writer, his manners are beautiful-although, like most good manners, a little banal...
Week-End Marriage points a familiar lesson in a banal way, but it is well acted, well directed by Thornton Freeland, and dealing with conventional surfaces, it does so honestly. The story was adapted from Faith Baldwin's Part Time Wives. The opening scene is almost word for word from Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children which Warner Brothers produced as a cinema...