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...long-winded story about theatrical life, the film is as crowded as the busiest Balzac novel with people, city noises, brawling and lovemaking (see BOOKS). The setting, too, is Balzacian: the sprawling plot tries to keep up with half a dozen leading characters as they move through 1848 Paris. But the film's makers, using their own script, lacked Balzac's gift for tying up dangling ends and giving a finished story some look of significance...
Miguel Covarrubias is one of Mexico City's busiest men. Besides studying Chinese, he is working on an ambitious work on pre-Columbian art in the Western Hemisphere (to be finished by 1948), and teaching Indian arts at the National School of Anthropology. He is preparing an illustrated edition of Pearl Buck's translation from the Chinese, All Men Are Brothers; he has sketched out two gigantic mural maps of Mexico for the lobby of the big new Hotel del Prado. Yet he has time for some painting of his own, and time also...
...busiest beavers in Britain were bobbing chin & chin last week...
...Charlie Thomas is the busiest Republican in heavily Democratic Los Angeles County. Yeasty young party members are flocking to his campaign-although he is not running for any office. GOPoliticians are cagily watching its progress and wondering if he will let them climb aboard his band wagon. The state's Republican brass is beginning to shine up to him. Bald Mr. Thomas is boldly wooing and winning Republicans to his side with such unprofessional talk...
Sculling, one of the popular summer sports, attracts over 200 men for credit. Coach Dennison said that this past week has been the busiest this season, with between three and four hundred men going out every...