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...Malakoff factory last week, the orders were piling in. Lean and a little tired with age, Rudier walked through his foundry, supervising blue-overalled workers as they put the finishing touches to a massive statue by Henri Laurens for the Paris Museum of Modern Art. There was a casting of Rodin's huge Gate of Hell to be shipped 13,000 miles to a Tokyo museum, a repair job on three nymphs and two water-spouting dragons from Versailles' fountains, an order from Rotterdam to cast a statue by Zadkine commemorating the city's ordeal under Nazi...
...often happens in whodunits, the plot gets derailed at its destination. But on the way the picture rattles along at an exciting express clip. The movie plays fresh variations on a familiar theme in a lean scenario, pungent performances and inventive direction: a gangster car pacing the train is menacingly mirrored in compartment windows as backdrop to the slam-bang action; the cramped train settings are put to striking dramatic effect through expert camera work and cutting. Refreshingly, there are convincing sound effects and no hammering musical score...
...Kathleen Norris, 71, novelist and a onetime America Firster, plunked for Taft. Said she: "Most women lean toward an isolationist policy. We feel a lot more confidence in Mr. Taft keeping us out of entangling alliances than any of the other possible candidates...
...counteract the excessive power of pressure groups, and that is by defending the right to see a film as insistently as the minority opposes it. The majority, must swamp producers and local censors, for so long as all the pressure on them comes from one direction; they will always lean the same way. If there are going to be more pictures with the artistry and originality of Birth of a Nation, American moviegoers will have to be more articulate than they...
...spite of what the printer may say, seekers of blasphemy or eroticism will find lean pickings in the current Advocate. The three stories each boast at least one attempted or completed seduction, but by modern standards they are quite tame...