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Proust on the Subway. The Voice listener is apt to hear a great many wide-eyed, breathless stories about New York. Arab listeners were recently offered (Allah only knows why) a broadcast on Central Park which furnished the following startling information: "If you drive in through one of the streets that cross the park from west to east, or vice versa, you will probably go down a number of circular roads, and as the roads wind, your car will follow, and in half an hour or so you are back at the same point from which you started...
...comedy, but along with her unbridled vitality, she gives the role something that brassy Ethel Merman never attempted: she kindles the love story with poignancy, makes it seem something more sincere than a musicomedy plot. In a slow, sentimental number like They Say It's Wonderful, performed with breathless tenderness, she puts together the rare blend of singing and acting talent that makes lyrics carry emotion as well as melody. And, toward the end, when she bounces back into animal spirits to join Keel in Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, her strident comic style and Berlin...
Last week the Communists switched their tune. The new theme was not war, but hearts & flowers. On its front page the Berlin Communist press featured a breathless letter from the youth marchers...
...folk and earning a reputation as the best square-dance caller ever to stand alongside a fiddler ("Lady go gee, Gent go haw, Right allemande, just Pa and Ma"). Williams danced the polka with the Poles in Hamtramck, the czardas with the Hungarians in Ecorse. The Republicans, a bit breathless, felt a good deal like wallflowers. ¶ In California, Jimmy Roosevelt wound up a two-week "dry run" in his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. On street corners in 51 Northern California towns, lanky Jimmy had tilted his head, flashed the family grin, hacked away at the Republicans...
...usual run of Ford movies is an inordinate preoccupation with horses. This movie casts Katherine Hepburn as the Queen of Scots in a pretty free historical interpretation of how she wound up in the Tower of London. Miss Hepburn displays two emotions alternatively through the picture; her usual breathless unhappiness, and a dour sadness. She indicates the latter by quivering her lower jaw, an operation which resembles nothing so much as a successful attempt to suppress a sneeze...