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Indiscreet (Grandon; Warner), in the Broadway version (Kind Sir), was the sort of romantic comedy that is all dressed up but obviously has no place to go-but then, Broadway scarcely has the resources that are required to gild this sort of lulu. Instead of $100,000, the movie's Producer-Director Stanley Donen had about $1,500,000 to squander. Instead of painted flats, he had the city of London for his backdrop, and some of the city's stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead...
...Gild the farthing if you will, Yet it is a farthing still...
...editorial entitled "Ivy League Stupid to Cut Spring Football," the Daily Princeton said yesterday that "out of season practice aided amateurism," and called the abolition of spring practice "little more than an attempt to gild the Ivy League's amateur lily...
...effect on the great outside world. Newspaper readers in general, and Boston ones in particular, may be getting tired of exposes of Harvard as a Communist cell. This particular campaign has been too successful; readers have come to accept the fact, and frequent rehashing serves only to gild the smear...
...Fleisher. Its virtue is its creation of mood (Mr. Fleisher is well-traveled in the morbid regions of the human heart. In this case we are dealing with a hospital orderly who has always wanted to see a patient die, and finally gets his chance). "But the author must gild his story with psychological comment: "Life itself was nothing more than a perpetual dying, and because it was so, was more life. Paradox lay at the root of all being." Fortunately, however, there is little of this stuff; for those who don't mind cadavers "The Death of Adam Sadman...