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...appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture from a story as fantastic as James Hilton's Lost Horizon. But as a master of pace, he is certainly no better in his department than England's enormously fat, lethargic Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps) in the department of nightmarish melodrama. For sheer sentiment he is probably no match for pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped by John Ford (Hurricane), or Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous, Test Pilot). For capitalizing girlish sweetness at the box office...
Meanwhile, his buildings, spotted around Europe, excited critics. Henry-Russell Hitchcock called his first, in Wiesbaden, Germany, among the world's best modern houses, was as enthusiastic about two small apartment buildings in Zurich. At the Harvard exhibition, visitors were impressed most by the variety and ingenuity of Architect Breuer's projects. They range from a great "Garden City of the Future" to chairs made of plywood. They include his multiplying glass window-a group of small round windows, each curved like a camera lens, so that the same scene appears in a different focus, or from...
...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING-Lin Yu-tang-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Importance of Living-Lin Yutang -Reynal & Hitchcock...
...into the vacancy. But he was restrained by the fact that his lieutenant governor had just been indicted for embezzlement and might therefore have been ousted if he succeeded Berry as Governor, before he could appoint him (Berry) or anyone else to the Senate. Mr. Berry judiciously appointed Herbert Hitchcock, the State's Democratic Committee Chairman, who accepted though he modestly insisted that "100% of South Dakota's Democrats want Berry for Senator." A year in Washington caused Mr. Hitchcock's modesty to be replaced by an aggressive desire not to go home. Last week...