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There is very little to distinguish this show from the bright, glossy Technicolored musicals which Darryl Zanuck dishes out several times each year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only...
Pierrette's father, a Val d'Or clerk, has been fearful that his daughter's fame would spread too fast, that his family would incur the wrath of the Church.* The Church itself, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth and fraud, forbids recognition of any person's "miracles," no matter how well documented, as long as the person is alive. In Pierrette's case, the Church has been scrupulously uncommunicative...
...Committee, but no one can find fault with their setting of the problems of education. I personally do not like their emphasis upon "tradition." If one chooses to be etymological and to cover by "tradition" whatever has been handed down from earlier ages, good. But I like to distinguish between the Golden Rule and Euclid on the one hand and such items as Cabinet responsibility on the other. The first two are discoveries of something of absolute and universal value. The last is a device belated in its formulation and likely to cumber the earth long after it has ceased...
...stretches of muted menace and its well-designed explosions of violence, Blood on the Sun has much of the clean, sharp-nerved charm which used to distinguish the adventure romances of the late great Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A shade less inspired than Fairbanks as an athlete, Cagney is an even better actor. He cannot even put a telephone receiver back on its hook without giving the action special spark and life. Moreover, liberal Actor-Producer Cagney is a man of sense and good will. He takes care, even in the midst of this angry bit of patriotism, to show that...
Most animals are color blind. The matador's cape is bright red only for the human actors and audience; the bull would be even more enraged by a pure white one. Even among animals which can distinguish color, notably fish and birds, brilliant markings do not influence the female's choice of a mate. They serve primarily to intimidate other males. The barnyard turkey's puffing and strutting are intended to advertise his dominance, maintain his social position, defend his territory. The female turkey responds to bluff, not beauty...