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The production is not quite all of a piece. Thirteen-year-old Iris Mann (The Innocents) plays the brat with remarkable skill, and more convincingly than brilliantly stagy Florence McGee, a grownup, did in 1934. And, as in 1934, Katherine Emmet is impressive as the grandmother. As the schoolmistresses, however...
Lola Flores, a dark-haired, deep-bosomed Spanish flamenco dancer with a throaty voice and glittering black eyes, is the current rage of Mexico City. Getting a table for her 2 a.m. show at the fashionable, mirror-ceilinged Club Capri requires luck and pull plus about 150 pesos ($16.40) per...
"Asphalt and Desire" has all the elements of an excellent novel of frustration and bewilderment. The heroine, Iris Leavis, an off-spring of the Bronx Levins and a newly-hatched graduate of Hunter College, is certainly complicated enough for a modern heroine. And her situation abounds in conventional and unconventional...
But the book is weakened by two excessive demands Mr. Morton makes on the reader's credulity. One is that we believe Iris really did all the things she says she did during the five days which the novel corers. In that time, she is almost seduced at Saratoga, plans...
It is a doubly great pity that Mr. Morton chose the "I" technique, since his forte is description of other people. When he steps out of Iris for a moment to watch the goings-on in her West Bronx apartment, he introduces a menagerie of characters who are far more...