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...French film, Le Million, was presented in the Geography Building on December first, 1931. The films, selected by an instructor, have been on the whole, excellent, though not always pleasing to the tastes of everyone. One which was the subject of criticism was the admirably directed "Marius" because the dialect of its characters was a medley of French and Italian sounds. Except for this, the films, and especially Rene Clair's, which have been shown periodically, have given students an opportunity to hear the spoken French language in a pleasant...
...Farewell Miss Julie Logan" Barrie manages to avoid much of the sentimentality so objectionable in some of his early works. He tells the tale with an appropriate simplicity, but on the other hand, he neither adds to its lucidity or excellence by his over-concious use of dialect. Because of the characters and a convincing reality, it is far from being an ordinary ghost story. And it will probably insure the author a popularity beyond the nursery in a modern, perhaps over-sophisticated world...
...Shadow Flies is full of talk, much of it good, all of it Caroline, some of it (notably the Devonshire dialect) colorfully incomprehensible...
...capers about constantly, kicking up such a breeze with his furious fanning that he all but blows himself into the wings. He takes frequent encores by singing the most irreverent variations on the text, translating "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La" into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include the passing parade of follies, such as the "scorching bicyclist" and the "lovely suffragist; so that for his inclusion...
...affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large market untapped: The Trough of the Wave sold 1,063, The Blind Man 556, The Big Wedding 372. Not discouraged, Publisher Knopf will wind...