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Topflight performances are given by Claudette Colbert as the wife and Robert Cummings as the passing here. Though Miss Colbert is no longer the bathing beauty she was in Sign of the Cross, she does her best to convey an air of youthful innocence and terror. Her best is good enough. Cummings is reminiscent of the debonair pre-war Robert Montgomery, and a far cry from the usual neurotic hard-drinking males who presently haunt the screen. Don Amcche is adequate as the husband though he makes an unexpected "heavy." In fact the only weak spot is debut of Hazel...
...days the prayers and the cries came on schedule, then suddenly the door opened and out marched strapping Novice Eshun Sato and 53 colleagues. They told a bitter story. "We novices had to wait hand and foot on the oldtimers," said Sato. "To convey a message or request to a fifth-time priest, I had to speak to a priest who was taking the rites for the second time, who relayed the message on up by rank. I protested to Chief Priest Nakakita, and for this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita...
...brief news item in the CRIMSON on December 2 concerning a talk I delivered at Harvard on the Foreign Service gave a somewhat distorted impression of what I intended to convey...
...intend to convey the impression that death begins after 25 years of insulin or diabetic therapy...
André Gide had adapted the dialogue for Franz Kafka's dark parable, The Trial, with painstaking exactness ("I effaced myself"). To convey the uncanny mood of Kafka's story (about a man tried for an unnamed crime and eventually executed by the officers of an unnamed court), Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise) had staged it with imagination...