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Surprisingly similar to "Mayerling" in mood and pace, "Orage"--now at the Fine Arts--attains dramatic excellence through masterful use of simple, intrinsically unprepossessing material. In the hands of Warner Brother and Kay Francis--perish the thought!--it would probably have been trite and dull, for the plot concerns merely the tragic love of a marries man (Mr. Boyer) and a tempestuous, delicate, passionate femme du monde (Michele Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except...
Whooping into Manhattan, which many saw for the first time, the party took over three floors of the Roosevelt Hotel, busied itself for two days with mass shopping expeditions, visits to museums, theatres, night clubs. At a luncheon where the girls badgered celebrities, Stephens' tall, brown-haired Kay Leftwich was picked by a professional models' agent as "most beautiful American schoolgirl." Third day, having lost only three overcoats a day, reported only one case of illness (cause: overeating) and absorbed considerable informal education on woman's 7,400 problems, the girls embarked in two ships for Florida...
...offing. Allen Lane is now on a four-month tour of India and the Near East. If those markets look as good as they sound, he will begin his biggest venture yet: publishing Penguin books in Basic English, a simple 850-word vocabulary sifted out by Orthologist-Critic Charles Kay Ogden. Besides the prospect of getting rich while combining two of the liveliest ideas in England, Publisher Lane may also point the way to matching, in the democracies, the vast book editions made possible under dictatorships through State-controlled publishing houses...
...time is the olden days; the place, an assiduously merrie England. Principal characters are two boys-Kay, a toad of a child, and the Wart, who turns out to be King Arthur. Kay's father, Sir Ector, is a ruddy country gentleman who wants the lads to have a proper "eddication," decides to hire a tutor. By accident the Wart finds just the man-one Merlyn...
...future, is living backwards in time, getting younger. This device is the excuse for numerous anachronisms: since Merlyn knows what will happen in the 20th Century, why not make some of it happen in the 13th? He does, to the delight of the Wart, to the confusion of Kay, Sir Ector and the reader...