Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grace 1) has a sense of humor 2) does not dislike Americans...
...Distinctly not for the squeamish." Lena, by a Prix Goncourt winner (Captain Conan), is a War romance on the order of A Farewell to Arms, plus the sinister violence of plot inseparable from Balkan settings. Readers who stubbornly refuse to humor Balkan settings may call it merely macabre sex melodrama skilfully made up to pass as an indictment...
...Shot (RKO) : Guy Kibbee and Cora Witherspoon extracting the last ounce of humor from a story about a veterinarian who uses the fortune he inherits from a racketeer to crusade against rackets...
...subject matter have made a Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this knot as possibly something more than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety to untie it or the humor to let it alone. European surrealists have recently publicly allied themselves with the French and Spanish Communists, thus provoking the Führer's political enmity as well as his esthetic rage...
...picture as well as her last. Glib, forthright, knowing and adroit, released last week to coincide with the opening of the 1937 season at New York's old spa, it investigates the lighter side of the serious sport of horse racing with as much good sense as good humor...