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...castle of a crazy countess (Lyda Roberti), are able to see a series of broadcasts in which the other members of the cast do their turns. As self-conscious as it sounds, it is an artifice of which the only redeeming feature is that it may suit the baser tastes of the case-hardened radio addicts for whom the picture was patently designed...
...country reads how viciously the benevolent Mr. Hearst has been misunderstood, but the sunny note creeps in when the Dean of AMERICAN Journalism reassures us that he stands for everything noble in humanity and that his chain of newspapers exists for the sole purpose of protecting us from the baser side of our natures. It is now definitely certain that Mr. Hearst's enemies have been shameless liars: his advertisement assures us that he is in favor of "American independence, American rights and liberties, free speech, free assembly, freedom of thought and action, and freedom of the press." What...
...Clarence here talks of plumbing of the baser sort and discloses an expert knowledge of what Shakespeare called 'Jakes' and of those mundane matters of which those of us with rural upbringing are admittedly hardly qualified to speak...
...mighty challenge to the cinema's capacity to transfer literature to the screen without losing its precious essence. But there were real difficulties: Would the public accept a clubfooted hero? What was to be done with a love story involving a young man's revulsion from his baser instincts? How could a hateful shrew of a girl be portrayed by any actress known to Holly wood? As a practical answer to these questions. Of Human Bondage is a good picture taken from a great book...
This week U. S. readers got a real treat when for once they were offered a book that would neither harrow their feelings, shame their social consciences, shock their susceptibilities nor arouse their baser impulses. Worlds apart from the concerns of their everyday lives, Seven Gothic Tales opens a window on a refreshingly different world-the world of "Isak Dinesen." Like their romantically pseudonymous author, these seven stories are romantic, but with a difference. Each has the depth of a well-conceived novel. Removed from the U. S. reader in time (the 19th Century) and place (Italy, France, Germany, Denmark...