Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady of Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When a good play is turned into a picture by the photographing of its acts, scene by scene, it loses more than the artifice of flesh and blood. Its framework stiffens. Graces that shone brilliantly behind the footlights seem antiquated in the more fluid form for which they were not intended. This comedy of Lonsdale's, The High Road, is not really oldfashioned. Its situation-the consternation of an English family when faced with the possible marriage of one of its scions with a Gaiety-girl-is ingeniously handled. Ruth Chatterton and Basil...
PAUL ROBESON, NEGRO-Eslanda Goode Robeson-Harper ($2.50). Many a U. S. citizen, white and colored, has heard Paul Bustill Robeson, in the flesh or on a phonograph record, sing "Ol' Man River," "Water Boy" and many another movingly mournful song of his race. Those who have seen him know he is young (32), tall, powerful, coal-black, has a modest, engaging stage presence. Singer Robeson is married. His wife, much smaller, much less dark than he, sings for an audience too, but only sings her husband's praises. Paul Robeson, Negro is partly biography, partly propaganda...
...which stands forth as a distinctive mark of the author. The adventures of Lewis are true to form, the duality of imagination and action is developed along the usual lines. The title, and the use of the obelisk as a symbol, have only a tenuous bond with the solid flesh of the story. The sincerity of the narration and the freedom from sophisticated or psychological patter are the bright points...
...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...
...describe as a "yella girl." From then until his death the poet carried on a long and weary struggle with debt, disease, wine, opium, and impotence. Through it all he kept up his unending search for the "Ideal Beauty". His life was a duel between Catholicism and Paganism, between flesh and the spirit. He died a failure, yet his poetry lives today as some of the most beautiful that the French nation has produced...