Word: delusionally
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The production, on the whole, is a very good one, and most of the faults are due to inherent flaws in the play and incompetent direction, which increased rather than alleviated them. Two things, however, stand out. One is the uniform excellence of the sets; the other is the acting...
The night of Repeal, now many months heralded by brassy clarion sounds and the low moans of boot-leggers, is the finish of a flaming column in the scroll of American delusion. Presumably, it ushers in a day of betterment: there will come the fall of the beer baron and...
It would seem nearer to the truth to assign Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is...
Eskimo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a report of goings-on in the snowfields, some naive, some sophisticated, but almost all unusual, spectacular, disturbing. Most enthralling sequences are those which exhibit: its hero, Mala, engaged in hunting a whale, which nearly upsets his boat with it's tail; dignified walruses...
Ann Carver's Profession (Columbia) is a solemn little problem picture, based on the notion that woman's place is in the home. The banality of this theme is only less startling than the fact that Robert Riskin, who wrote and adapted the story, was clearly under the...