Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Depths. Though these remarks are somewhat esoterically prejudiced by the knowledge that the original play from which The Depths was taken is a brilliant psychological study, the fact remains that the play was generously damned by all professional observers. In other words, it is unworthy entertainment, what ever its origins...
These critical deriders, Miss Newman, in a brilliant volume that is at once an anthology and a book of criticism, disproves. She writes the short story's pedigree. She arranges in a line short stories selected from Petronius, Boccaccio, Voltaire, Hans Christian and Sherwood Anderson, Merimee, De Maupassant, Chekov, James Joyce, Henry James, Jules Laforgue, Paul Morand. Before each story is a brief critical preface describing the influences that shaped each writer, the influences that each set in motion, the significance of each in the line of heroic descent...
...tittle of what his eyes might say to that man when they meet. This was the first time I had shaken hands with Mr. Sherman, sage from the Middle West, now editor of Books. His philosophies I bow to. His essays seem to me sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted charm-but it is the charm of a wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams and of violent discussions. Here...
CANDIDA-A new dress for one of the Shavian standbys. Katherine Cornell adds her usual brilliant personality to a consistently capable cast...
...last. With Emil Jannings in the part, it tells the simple story of a hotel door- keeper who is dismissed because of old age. He dies of disappointment in the hotel lavatory and is abruptly brought to life in a regular Hollywood honey ending. The economy of effect, the brilliant play of detail, the simplicity make it a text book to U. S. directors. Unfortunately, even the performance of Herr Jannings cannot make the kindly character tragedy of deep dramatic interest...