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Richard Llewellyn is one more of those writers who love their common native speech and who use it with a sensuous efficiency which, in its verbal splendor, its folksy lilt and whine, approaches literary affectation. Yet in this, his first published novel (he has destroyed five), he has developed a hypnotic ability to do precisely what he pleases. His Morgans, those they live among, the country they inhabit, every incident, every reflection Huw Morgan ventures on the whole matter, have an even radiance and euphony plus a rock-bottom tangibility. If it be only would-be great How Green...
...Ella was not absurd, and it is the special virtue of Jenny Ballou's book that she makes that plain. Some of Ella's first poems were "lovely in their lilt, overbrimming with an authentic freshness of emotion." She had great energy, great sincerity, great generosity, and on occasion great good sense. Even when she became a fixture of yellow journalism, her spontaneity remained untainted by cynicism. What was it that led her on into the self-deception that finally broke down in her last tragic years? ("I shall be forgotten," she said, "while more careful and conscientious...
Skillfully directed by Mervyn LeRoy, adorned with two members of the original stage cast (Teddy Hart and Sam Levene), Three Men On A Horse is more than just a very funny picture. It has the authentic lilt and shuffle of that Broadway half-world whose deflated, hard-packed mirth had had no equal interpretation since the late Ring Lardner. Best scenes : the Lavillere staff, including the bartender, the bellhop and the maid, working on Oiwin's greeting-card orders; Patsy's girl Mabel (Joan Blondell) keeping Oiwin from going; home by showing him the specialty...
...threatened Frenchmen who have funds abroad with confiscation of equivalent funds unless the foreign deposit is reported to the Government, and implied that his "Baby Bonds" had better find quick buyers-or else. "We must conquer egotism and fear!" cried Vincent Auriol with something of Franklin Roosevelt's lilt. "Already I have in my hand a list of citizens who have evaded their duty by not reporting funds abroad. We must conquer fraud and fear...
...Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria with the romantic Elizabeth of Bavaria. Miss Moore is not in quite the best of voice but the picture has a very pleasant lilt and benefits muchly by the presence of the admirable Walter Connolly...