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Left. By Circusman John Ringling; to the State of Florida: some $20,000,000, the bulk of his estate. A $5,000 annuity was left to a sister, Ida Ringling North, in a codicil to an original will that left her half the estate...
...Ida Lupino, proving again that she ranks among the screen's top-flight actresses, gives a restrained and intelligent performance as the murderess who kills her benefactress in order to provide a home for her two helpless sisters. Louis Hayward is excellent as her conniving nephew. And each of the supporting roles is masterfully handled, with an attention to detail that fills every scene with an unmatched intensity and impact...
...story itself is unable to hold the show together and the net result is a mixture of good little bits scattered through an evening of mediocre entertainment. Particularly fine is the end of the show when Eddie Cantor steps out in blackface to render such old favorites as "Ida" and "Margic," in the best of vaudeville style. But the performance smacks too much of that vanished type of theatre to be thoroughly pleasing today...
...Ida," "That Which," "Ah God" are all painted by cheerful little grey-haired Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who works happily in the husk of an abandoned Methodist Church in Warrenville, Ill., an hour's drive outside Chicago. All three pictures have a microscopic detail that is more real than real life, a funereal rose and lavender cast, all are of subjects which look worn and battered by eternity...
...Ida," a bluish portrait of a massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...