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...more credit for the validity and sincerity of his dramatic ideas than for his way of handling the tools of his craft. In Ten Million Ghosts this discrepancy is even wider. The characters move in an atmosphere of unreality. Verified facts are blurted so awkwardly that they assume a cloak of incredibility. Furthermore, most spectators will agree that the thesis that armament makers are the sole cause of war is too old and battered for adult consideration. Best feature of Ten Million Ghosts is the settings-particularly one of a Universe Forges gun works-by 34-year-old Donald Oenslager...
Outbreaks of adolescence have never been a rarity at Yale, but the recital given by the Yale News early this week, when it pulled off the cloak of non-partisanship and announced itself for Roosevelt, was certainly the theme song of little boys reveling in their political coming...
...grand manner. Those who preferred the new school of low-key interpretation considered that Actor Gielgud admirably analyzed his own fluid impersonation of the world's best-known literary case of frustration when in Scene II Hamlet informs the Queen: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak...
...CLOAK OF MONKEY FUR - Julian Duguid-Apple ton-Century ($2.50). Costume piece by the author of Green Hell; a brisk, fast-moving but conventional novel dealing with an ill-fated expedition from Spain to South America...
Whether the rubbernecks' grandstand, Director LeRoy's gratitude and even the qualities of the picture itself will cause the LeRoy version of Anthony Adverse to equal the success of the Allen version is exceedingly debatable. As hard-breathing, swashbuckling sword-&-cloak melodrama it is good but not superlative...