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produced last spring, this story of a hunted man and his struggle back to safety is too well known to demand repeating. The picture, however, does bear seeing again, even for a third or fourth time. Robert Newton as a mad artist searching for a mysterious "dying look"; the elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...
...book has humor, gaiety, moments of charm, a few neat satiric flings. But it also has a good deal of fairly maddening cuteness that creeps into some of the lyrics as well; it chronically follows up good lines with bad ones; it blunts its satire with buffoonery; and from elfin antics it suddenly plummets down to outhouse humor...
...great quantities of salt are required to digest "Enchanted Cottage's" elfin consomme, for it is subtly spiced with acting that is something distinct from the sleep-walking with which most productions are content...
Paris Calling (Universal) is wee, elfin Elizabeth (Escape Me Never!) Bergner's first Hollywood picture. Now 41, the onetime top actress of the German stage has been making movies in England for the last seven years. Despite Miss Bergner's talents, none of her pictures has greatly pleased U.S. cinemagoers...