Word: centredness
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JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN-Martin Delaney-Vanguard ($2.50). Case study of poverty-ridden Greenwich Villagers in the pre-New Deal era, set down by a sensitive young Irishman who strives to maintain his integrity while Catholicism, Communism and a self-centred blonde struggle for his soul.
Referring to his royal patient's frequent and serious illnesses, Dr. Sassard observes: "I have always been surprised by the reserves of energy and courage that exist in so frail a body. . . . The attention of the public and of Europe is directed at the two sons of the Sovereign...
Now Nijinsky is mad, cloistered in a Swiss sanatorium. Now Diaghilev is dead, his company disbanded. For its so-called successor, the popular Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Author Kirstein has limited respect. He freely grants talent to its maitre de ballet, Leonide Massine, to Ballerinas Alexandra Danilova, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana...
Escape Me Never (British & Dominions). Cinemaddicts who, after Catherine the Great, still have any doubts about the capabilities of Elisabeth Bergner, should find them allayed by this picture. Purposely designed to exhibit her extraordinary versatility, it becomes a sort of steeplechase of the emotions in which, as Gemma, a strangely...
"I belong to the school which believes the Government should own the stock of the Reserve Banks. . . . Instruments of credit, I believe, should be centred in a Government authority."