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...Bigger Brush. So that his students would not worry too much about detail and thus lose the vision of the canvas as a whole, he encouraged them to paint with a palette knife in quick, broad strokes. "Swing a bigger brush. Have enthusiasm," he said. With most students he was rarely harsh, but to a few, his Saturday morning critiques must have been a torment. Once a young woman showed him a sentimental painting of two children playing on a beach. "I'm not going to say a thing about this picture." he said icily. Then, exploding, he roared...
...Wants to Sleep (in Polish). A zany cops-and-robbers farce whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife...
...group of resistance fighters, trapped in the sewers of German-occupied Warsaw, struggle to their doom A welcome break in the lowering skv comes with Eve Wants to Sleep, a zany cops-and-robbers farce, whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife...
...alley; a man is clubbed to the pavement and his briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...
...viewer realizes that it is he who has been led up an alley. These Poles are up to something. As a jingling, bezithered theme song about crime without punishment gives evidence, the film is showing a previously unmapped neighborhood of that criminally comic never-city where Mack the Knife operates. Just now it is nightfall, and a pretty, innocently mischievous girl (Barbara Lass) has arrived at the city's School of Geodetics, ready to enroll. But the school cannot receive her till tomorrow, and out into the night she wanders...