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Author Novello, an assiduous London partygoer, has accurately noted many a curio of London theatrical parties. Present at this one are two celebrities: famed Mrs. Patrick Campbell as a famed "Mrs. MacDonald," and able Cecilia ("Cissie") Loftus. A Party projects such a party completely, including onlookers' boredom and painted embarrassment for the participants...
...youngsters-in some small degree at least -unconsciously hate parents of the same sex, are erotically attracted to parents of the opposite sex. Thirty-three years have passed since Die Traumdeutung was published. Today Sigmund Freud, ill and old (77), almost never emerges from the seclusion of his curio-filled Vienna home. His work has been honored, but it has also been severely criticized. Many a onetime disciple has drifted away, revising, overhauling, stripping the flesh from the impregnable skeleton of the original discovery and clothing it anew. One early disciple. Dr. Alfred Adler, discovered the Inferiority Complex, whose wide...
...suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop, hired for the part of the ex-mistress...
...murdered; and the police never come. THE MURDER OF CAROLINE BUNDY- Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). An errant swindler renews the search for the Holy Grail, with murder by the way. THOSE SEVEN ALIBIS-Charles G. Booth -Morrow ($2). The evil smile of a marble face changes a curio shop to a dueling ground; seven suspects for a slayer...
...most important development of science, and in which any love story had pathos if it was laid in the Latin quarter and contained a titled Englishman in a leading part, Trilby was a masterpiece of popular appeal. For modern cinemaseers it is an interesting though somewhat gloomy curio, worth-while for John Barrymore's tricks. It is beautifully staged. Typical shot: Barrymore dying as he makes a last effort to hypnotize Trilby, while she, feeling his influence fail, goes flat on a high note of "Ben Bolt...