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Tear-Jerker. Ophelia is not an easy role, nor is it any too clearly written. Most actresses who try it (besides being old enough to spank Polonius) are likely to play the sane scenes like mad scenes and the mad scenes like a little-theater production of Ring Lardner's Clemo Uti, or the Water Lilies...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
Philadelphia's prize rookie (he gets the standard rookie salary: $5,000 a year) is wholly unlike the Ring Lardner version. A lithe 170-pounder, Richie is well-dressed, polite and as serious about baseball as he is about most other things. On the road, he goes to a lot of movies and lounges in hotel lobbies, like other ballplayers, staring idly at passersby. He neither smokes nor drinks (about three bottles of beer a year don't count...
Much of the writing is dated. The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge seems a more imaginative creation 20 years after publication; but he also seems as unreal as the specters who haunted the castles of Gothic novelists...