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...seaside resort slicing up comely blonde lodgers, an organist (Maryesther Denver) appears on whichever side of the screen is unoccupied and plays the organ score from The Phantom of the Opera-1925 version. Miss Denver has the gruesomely businesslike air of the nurse who used to assist your childhood dentist with extractions and appears totally transported as she pulls out the organ stops. Wicked, Wicked is so obstinately mundane that it takes a while to decide whether Miss Denver's presence was meant in a spirit of fun or whether, like those split screens, it is just another gimmick...
...True, Mr. President. But if you will recall, you purged me from the Administration for not comprehending something you called the Critical Distinction. Besides, I can't help it if my lip was trembling--I had a bad toothache and was on my way to the dentist...
...literature and apprentice himself to a tree surgeon. But Sheed is also a novelist himself, so skilled that a few years ago, in Max Jamieson, he managed to write a strong and eloquent novel whose main character was a critic. The feat was the equivalent of successfully memorializing a dentist, and the decision on all sides was that Sheed was a marvel...
...pleasant four hours. Good for minor to major relaxation, superb for the dentist's office. But the killer drug? Not unless you would consider a goosedown pillow, self-administered, to be a serious threat to your mind or body...
They are replaced by increasingly elaborate, architecturally fascinating examples of period bridgework. Since, however, one of the reasons the historical Ludwig failed to brush three times a day and see his dentist twice a year was that he was preoccupied with the construction of those huge, zany castles on which his fame-and much of modern Bavaria's tourist industry-rests, it seems perverse of Director Visconti to give us so many splendid views of the royal mouth, and only one or two postcard snaps of the royal passion...