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...performer. Dolores Del Rio dances beautifully. Ricardo Cortez as her dancing partner looks like a hard, bad man; we like him better smiling. Dick Powell in a serious revival of his humorous part in "Blessed Event" is a singing, composing orchestra leader faintly reminiscent of a well-known insecticide. Kay Francis as a banker's lonely wife looks too gloomy. Louise Fazenda with her setback coiffure provides some good laughs, while Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert are conventional chaperoned husbands...
Although the inveterate moviegoer must resign himself to stereotyped plots, he always has a sneaking hope that some performance will be worth the price of admission. Unfortunately, the musical voice of Kay Francis is too small a weapon to struggle against the tawdry and tune worn story if "Mandalay" which is playing at the University...
...What the World needs most," says Orthologist Charles Kay Ogden, ''is about 1,000 more dead languages - and one more alive." Seeing the modern Babel as the principal barrier to worldwide communication, commerce and science. Ogden cast about for a linguistic ladder. Such manufactured lingos as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental he rejected as unrealistic, improbable. Instead he hit upon the idea of making a simplified form of English, thinks it has a good chance of becoming the international auxiliary language of the future. Though the arguments in favor of his choice would be more cogent...
...Author. One fact about Charles Kay Ogden would be enough to frighten most plain readers. With Ivor Armstrong Richards, another Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he wrote a book with the fearsome title, The Meaning of Meaning (1923). No mess of metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working efficiency of language, this book was the starting point of Basic English. His position as student of psychology and language has brought him in touch with many a learned head in other countries. From his Orthological Institute of Cambridge and his bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs...
Metropolitan--"Mandalay". Kay Francis glares at men and looks intense in a Burmese setting. All right if you like Miss Francis. Stage show recommended...