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Escape Me Never (British & Dominions). Cinemaddicts who, after Catherine the Great, still have any doubts about the capabilities of Elisabeth Bergner, should find them allayed by this picture. Purposely designed to exhibit her extraordinary versatility, it becomes a sort of steeplechase of the emotions in which, as Gemma, a strangely sophisticated yet completely unworldly waif married to a pompous, self-centred young musical genius, Actress Bergner is called upon to take more spiritual hurdles than occur in any normal lifetime. The hazards of Gemma's career are indicated in the first scene by the fantastic means she uses...
...Constant Nymph and performed by Elisabeth Bergner in London and Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 28). Escape Me Never is a cinematic mediocrity, which not even Director Paul Czinner's artful concentration on his wife's talents can turn into more than an extensive inventory of them. Good shot: Gemma helping her husband try to comfort her for small Tommy's death by laughing at his promises to behave better in the future...
...doubt that Dante was a sensual man." As a Catholic he was guilty of three besetting sins-lust, wrath, pride. "Dante is always a little aloof, and easily shows a surly temper. . . . [His] love is more of the head than the heart, more theological than evangelical." Of his wife Gemma and the children she bore him Papini says hardly a word. Of the divine fire that must have blazed behind Dante's cold Catholic exterior his biographer does not give even a pale reflection...
...Sanger strain is not strong in Caryl it is nonetheless there. He has its troubled spirit if he has not its fire. Gemma, the little hoyden that Sebastian has picked up and lives with contentedly and illegally, knows it is there before the others do. She provoked it one afternoon in the Dolomites. Gemma knows, too, that Caryl's solidness is a much-needed compensation to Sebastian's brilliance. When Sebastian goes off to Paris to conduct the opening of his first ballet, he leaves Gemma in an ecstasy of fear for her sick baby and of anger...
...Sanger strain in Caryl becomes completely apparent to Sebastian on his return from Paris when Caryl, told by Gemma of Sebastian's relations with Fenella, kicks him downstairs. Sebastian promptly calls Fenella and runs away with her. But this time Caryl profits. Like most things brilliant, Sebastian's charms are not particularly adaptable. When Caryl, bent on delivering a message to Sebastian and resigned to the loss of Fenella, finds them together, he discovers that all is not harmony between them, that Sebastian is thinking of Gemma, Fenella thinking of Caryl. After that Caryl takes Fenella away. Sebastian...