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There is barely enough body to the play to make the situation created ring entirely true, but this is easily over-looked as are certain confusions arising from the legal turn which is taken in the final act. The constant interplay of the frivolous with the tragic, makes one forget the obvious flaws as the audience is carried from the tittering stage to one of extreme tension...
...plot, however, with its complications and solutions, is really rather incidental, for the book is essentially a book of character studies, and therein lies its chief virtue. It is mainly concerned with the interplay of the emotions and desires and actions of a group of people in a given setting, complicated by the influences and forces that their foreign environment brings to bear on them. Mr. Cozzens uses Cuba much as Kipling used Simla. And as in Kipling, the writing is character portraiture, rather than development. Consequently the people are painted in rather brighter colors than strict realism allows, with...
...piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations. Loud, therefore, were twitterers and twitterings...
...Lectures has recently been published under the title of "Living Machinery;" a series, now bound together not only in substance but in thought and in purpose, fascinating from beginning to end, and giving in the clearest fashion an explanation of "living machinery", that is, of our own bodies. The interplay of nerve and muscle, and of chemical and electrical reaction that takes place within the living animal is graphically and entertainingly set forth. Curiosity is constantly piqued by such statements as-"Even when a nerve carriers 280 messages in a second, its temperature rises only 1-14,000th part...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM? Max Reinhardt's enchanting interplay of ballet, Mendelssohn and Shakespeare. In German...