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...artful Jo Mielziner, Miss Cornell handled her part with definite authority. She seemed a little less awed by Shakespeare's rich verse than such predecessors in the rôle as Jane Cowl and Eva Le Gallienne. Her technical resource was never strained as she ran the gamut of shy girlishness in the opening scenes, mischievous eroticism on the star lit balcony, near-delirium when about to take Friar Laurence's potion. Newspaper reviewers sent up a praiseful paean to the adjectival accompaniment of: "Lovely! Exquisite! Extraordinary! Marvelous! Thrilling! Exciting! Radiant! True magnificence! Superlative!" Burns Mantle...
...gasps, whispers in the approved manner of the Green Hat school of acting. With but two months left to live, she finds that dissipation is not a proper preparation for meeting her Maker, goes to Dr. Steele in Vermont. Here, before Death overtakes her, Miss Bankhead runs the other gamut of her talent, bouncing around on furniture, puffing out her cheeks in gay girlishness...
...days past there appeared on the local scene the "Harvard Man's Guide Book," a publication dedicated to the worthy purpose of the better enjoyment of bright college years and the more efficient sowing of wild oats. In this monumental work, greeted by a thunderous silence, which runs the gamut of Harvard activities from A to B, the omission of a chapter on false teeth or orthodontia, is a heavy loss...
...Fleet's power plants functioned in the Caribbean. The communications, navigation and ordnance staffs may do likewise. Who won the battle of the Caribbean is not regarded by the Navy as important. A different set of officers, under actual war conditions, might successfully play an entirely different gamut of strategy...
Criticism has forms that run the gamut from a brickbat to a disapproving silence, but criticism as a profession is not crowded with leaders. Thoughtful U. S. citizens, dazed by the soundless flicker of statistics, deafened by the screams of professional iconoclasts, lulled by the thin whisper of unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three...