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Marie Bell, Raimu, Fernandel, Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur, the greatest cinema actors in France, names that will pack any theatre in Paris, all came to the Fine Arts yesterday in "Un Carnet de Bal," a picture worth seeing if only as an anthology of all that the French screen has to offer. Episodic, rather in the manner of "If I Had A Million," the picture takes a world-weary blonde (Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each...
Although athletics, especially house sports, attracted the greatest numbers, when it came to determining the most worthwhile activity the various publications were very nearly as popular. In other words, extra-curricular interest is certainly not limited to the sports or to the Houses, but rather, activity in writing, music, and charities have an equally important place in the greatly broadened field of extra-curricular work...
...just as disastrous as The Merry Wives in exactly the opposite way. Underplayed to the vanishing point, it left the audience wondering whether they had lost their hearing or the actors had lost their voices. With the pace a solemn largo, The Wild Duck, possibly the greatest play in the modern theatre, might have got by as a genteel pantomime had there been any gestures...
...Guitry fancy that the pearls were originally seven. In telling how their number was reduced to four, Sacha Guitry puts on the greatest parade of kings, ministers and great ladies ever assembled on stage or screen. He himself plays Francis I of France and Napoleon III. His wife, Jacqueline Delubac, is Mary Queen of Scots and the Empress Josephine. Of the rest Veteran Actor Lyn Harding's Henry VIII is brief but good, Actor Ermete Zacconi's Clement VII is great...
...silvery grand old man in Cincinnati in 1919. When the average citizen thinks of first-rate U.S. painters of half a century ago he remembers John Singer sargent, but he is not likely to remember that Sargent once remarked: "After all's said, Frank Duveneck is the greatest talent of the brush of this generation...