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Mamba's Daughters (dramatized by Dorothy & DuBose Heyward from his novel; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is not another Porgy. It equals Porgy as a document on Negro dialect and folkways, has some exciting, a few touching moments. But if Mamba's Daughters took one step more it would topple over into sheer ten-twent-thirt...
...Negroes are generally credited with two great contributions to U. S. folk music: 1) spirituals, 2) the musical dialect of jazz. Why these two contributions should be so different has long puzzled high & lowbrows. One obvious reason: spirituals are sacred and solemn, hence naturally slower and tamer than jazz...
...which the Ukrainian oak is expected to grow is the autonomous district of Ruthenia, eastern tip of the German-dominated remainder of Czechoslovakia. Poland tried to coax Hungary into grabbing Ruthenia last month, but Germany effectively vetoed the idea. The 725,000 Ruthenians differ only slightly from Ukrainians in dialect and religion...
...joined the U. S. cavalry and fallen in love with a Cossack singer (Frances Farmer), only cinemaddicts with phenomenal deductive powers will be able to keep track of the proceedings. Only unusually indulgent cinemaddicts will want to. Typical shot: Akim Tamiroff roaring at Leif Erikson in Cossack dialect while showing him how to take a Cossack Turkish bath...
...dialogue for Pygmalion, which was taken verbatim from the stage play except for two new scenes showing Eliza's first bath and her first ball. In doing so, however, he showed his regard for American ideas to the extent of allowing most of Eliza's Cockney dialect in the opening scenes...