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...finally reappeared last week, 23 years old and slightly heavier about the stern, as a wheedling soubrette whose bad habits included nasal babytalk, semidipsomania and an appetite for carnal misbehavior. Her performance was skillful, as was that of Actress Constance Cummings, but the story-in which the two girls wrangled for the attentions of a young business man who, though he succumbed in turn to both, never seemed much interested in either one-was a trifle of the type which Hollywood now turns out in case-lots. When repulsing the advances of a suave but likeable playboy who employs...
...whose Bishops at the Lambeth Conference last August recorded their "strong condemnation of any methods [save abstinence] of birth control from selfishness, luxury or mere convenience" (TIME, Aug. 25), he pointed out that the sexual instinct, used for procreation, is a holy one, but "when misused ... it becomes a carnal instinct. While the respondent believes in this absolute standard of morals, he is sympathetic with human weakness, and knows that it will take humanity a long time to reach that goal...
...role. The song publisher's mistress is played a little too broadly by June MacCloy. Most of the acid and laughable dialog of the play has been retained, as has the depraved and tuneless anthem, composed by a writer of novelty songs: Should a father's carnal sins Blight the life of babykins? All I ask is: Give our child a name-mean, a last name. My Past (Warner). Pregnancy used to be established in the films by a glimpse of tiny garments. Preliminary activities were intimated by two pairs of shoes out-side a door. Grown slightly...
...Chicago the Civic Opera Company did the unusual, chose no well-proven piece for curtain-raiser, no outstanding soprano. For its first night, also Oct. 27, it will present the U. S. premiere of Frenchman Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, an adaptation of a carnal plot by Alfred de Musset, with Baritone Vanni-Marcoux singing the title role created by him ten years ago in Paris...
Should a father's carnal sins...