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What makes "Colonel Blimp" stretch to 146 minutes is its tremendous scope, its three generation historical footnote to the Law burlesque. Beginning called Clive Candy through out of the Bear War, the picture plumps down a punch bowl full of a atmosphere, all very English and very genteel. This was when wars were just "Summer maneuvers" so far as most people were concerned, and the British military set were having a dandy old time...
...inevitably misleading as well as mushy. But because the story leaves room for a lot of sincere sentiment and for even more acting-for-acting's sake, the story is also an extremely efficient tear-jerker which can get past the guards of even the wariest. With genteel taste and loving care, RKO has turned it into the best sentimental picture of the season...
...119th year, the venerable National Academy of Design put on the nation's most genteel, conventional art show. Last week in Manhattan the Academicians packed their staid galleries with 353 items classified as "Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art," distributed $2,400 in prizes. As usual, portraits of pearl-bearing dowagers vied for space with well-bred views of picturesque squalor. As usual, the show was judiciously peppered with a few works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour...
...place. The heavy Mogul tapestries had been hung from the high marble walls. The thick red carpet had been duly swept. India's princely rulers, each entitled to his salute of guns, should soon stalk in, stiff with brocade and glittering with jewels for two days of genteel debates. Afterwards they would be entertained at a formal party by the Viceroy and Lady Wavell...
...moves upstate, for a rest cure, to a quiet old sugar plantation, run by an uncle & aunt (John Qualen, Fay Bainter) whom she has never seen before. Also on hand are: a chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting her with all the cozy intimacy of a vampire bat; and a local physician (Franchot Tone) who, somewhat to the detriment of the picture, is obviously a man she can depend...