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...High Sierra" is an attempt to make the most of Humphrey Bogart's gangsterish histrionics by creating a continuous atmosphere of suspense. But Something has slipped and the whole sequence of events is pretty obvious. Both Bogart and Ida Lupino do excellent performances...
...Concert Master: Gilbert and Sullivan, Princess Ida...
...heroine of Ida is purportedly modeled on the Duchess of Windsor. That fact need trouble no one, short of a tenth reading or so. Ida is a woman who likes to rest, to talk to herself, to move around. In the course of her lifetime she has several dogs, marries several men (mostly Army officers), lives in several of the 48 States. She seems at times to be some sort of dim, potent symbol or half-goddess, sometimes a plain case of schizophrenia, sometimes a stooge for Miss Stein. In the long run, after several icily beautiful pages of suspense...
...much or how little sense Ida makes as a story is not important. The words in which it is told are stripped of normal logic, and totally cleansed of emotion. The result is something as intricately clean as a fugue or a quadratic equation...
Gertrude Stein says of Ida: "Ida decided that she was just going to talk to herself. Anybody could stand around and listen but as for her she was just going to-talk to herself...