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Brother Joseph, munitions crook, Brother Laurent, biologist. Best sequences: ratlike professional jealousies between two of Laurent's superiors; Laurent's innocent involvement in a cumulative scandal culminating, on the brink of World War I, in the ruin of his career. Worst: goo-goo over Cecile and her baby. The book's literary style, if any, is murdered by a have-you-seen-the-garden-of-my-aunt translation...
...would take more than this false-note ending to spoil a picture which has in its background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...
...Loring), dialogue (Saroyan's), and exquisite, dreamy sets consisting of stereopticon shadows cast on gauzy overlapping screens (Boris Aronson)-was, as Saroyan boasted in his cocky program note, "a new American form." As usual by Saroyan, critics were baffled; some thought the experiment goofy, some thought it just goo, some thought it really good. None could deny it was full to the lips with life...
...Unexpected Father" is the delightful story of three young people-Auer, Dennis O'Keefe, and Shirley Ross-trying to keep Hollywood's new gaglette, Baby Sandy, out of the clutches of an orphan asylum. Sandy goes goo-goo and the audience goes ga-ga and so the picture goes humorously along...
From sulphite liquor, in the course of a decade, Chemist Howard and his helpers drew a reddish-brown goo: lignin. From lignin they extracted vanillin (synthetic vanilla), now used for flavoring by many big sweets and ice cream manufacturers; Maratan, a chemical for tanning hides; T. D. A., a chemical for improving the quality of cement. Faster than dizzy Marathon officials could find markets for them, Guy Howard turned out new byproducts...