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...dint of much huffing and puffing, the United States has blown itself into a ridiculous China policy. Although to Communist Party is the Chinese government, the U.S. cannot recognize that fact at the present moment...
...complains, "call my painting photographic and talk about my extraordinary eyesight-that I can see individual leaves on a tree at 100 yards. My eye isn't any more extraordinary than anyone else's. I know the leaves are there so I paint them there." By dint of hard work and fine craftsmanship, Lucioni adds up enough leaves to make convincing trees, and enough trees, barns, hills, etc., to give an accurate idea of what Vermont is like. "There," a lot of summer tourists can sigh, "is my own, my native land...
Dallas packs plenty of guns and keeps them smoking; it spurs its horses vigorously over a well-traveled, well-Technicolored course. The picture rises a bit above the level of the standard western by dint of some dabs of humor and Actor Cochran's performance as a dull-witted second villain who takes a gleeful pride in his dastardly work...
Fred's Diary (1921-50) is at once an abbreviated record of Bason's daily life and a rung-by-rung account of his climb to Cockney notoriety. By dint of hanging around theater exits with an autograph album and writing very polite letters to celebrities, young Fred soon got on signature terms with everyone from Arnold Bennett to George Bernard Shaw. A few literary lions headed into the deep bush when they scented Fred on their trail. Poet John Masefield, for instance, responded to Fred's advances with a "chilly" printed card, and that "awful snob...
...genteel; the romance, though it would seem recklessly swift in real life, seems endless on the stage. But the root trouble with the play is its mediocre writing. Satire just as broad and boy-meets-girl stuff just as corny have clicked as popular entertainment by dint of bright and lively lines. Playwright Crump will have to get on with his dialogue if he hopes to make good as a hack...