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...Sydney Carton is probably the most complex character Dickens introduced into his many novels, but Ronald Coleman portrays all the idiosyncrasies of the drunken lawyer with an ability that places him among the first of the serious actors of the screen. That indifference which made Bulldog Drummond one of the famous roles of recent years is combined with an underlying nobility which is the keystone of Carton's actions and philosophy...
...story has been faithfully recorded with a little telescoping that does no harm to continuity or theme. The only discrepancy that is really noticeable is the complication between Carton and Barsad which becomes necessary because a double for Coleman could not be found to take the part of Charles Darnay and the identification of Darnay had to be frustrated by a species of blackmail over the witness, instead of the genuine resemblance between Carton and Darnay. It is also unfortunate that the movie magnates have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens...
...real art, it achieves the general by relating the particular with an emotional intensity that never lets down from the first shot of a coach wheel being pulled through the mud of an English road to the last shot, in which the camera swings up from the dying Carton and the bloodthirsty crowd in the Place dé la Révolution, up the shaft of the guillotine and still up, into the sunny sky of a new France...
...three big Manhattan department stores whose legendary price vendettas are a merchandising tradition, were at it again as soon as their doors opened the morning after the Supreme Court's decision. In one day's skirmish cigarets at Macy's dropped from $1.14 per carton to 64? - of which 60? represented the Federal tax. Edna Ferber's Come and Get It sank from $2.50 per copy to $2.04. Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a $3 volume, opened at $2.82 the first day, closed at $2.64, plummeted to $1.83 before the weekend...
...drunkenness or domestic emergencies. The cook fights with the butler. The guest of honor sits down alone with his hostess. When it seems that nothing more can happen unless Joan Fletcher cuts herself with a butter knife, her husband strolls into the dining room and hands her a carton of gardenias...