Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play is restless, intense, a tribute to Director Lee Strasberg's skill and care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...tries to find them again, the camera shows dramatic glimpses into many lives. The first was a suicide for love of Cristine, but lives on in the mind of a grief-mad mother. Another, the one who wooed her in verse, is now a slick crook. The composer (Harry Baur), of whose lyric tribute she was gaily unappreciative, has turned priest. The optimist (Raimu) who was going to be president is mayor of his village, is about to wed his cook. She traces the next to the Marseille water front. There the cameras are literally tilted, and with shrewdly-angled...
...Pity for Women, to tell the love story of worldly, malicious, 34-year-old Pierre Costals and pretty, innocent, 21-year-old Solange Dandillot. Author de Montherlant begins by giving pages of letters written to Costals, a successful novelist, by his feminine admirers. He writes a lugubrious essay on matrimonial advertisements (''Behind every one of these advertisements a face, a body, an unknown something that, after all, may well be a heart...
Even after Solange has been introduced, and her love affair is approaching a climax, de Montherlant stops the story to write a leisurely essay on happiness. Men, he says, have a negative conception of happiness. But "a woman will say to you that she is happy as she will say to you that she is warm or cold. 'What are you thinking?' 'That I am happy.' ... A woman who is happy and loved (and who loves) asks for nothing more. A man who loves and is loved needs something else as well. . . . Man seldom feels anything...
...hope you enjoy yourself at West Point and Annapolis but for Heaven's sake don't foll for a uniform. Harvard, after all, is the best place for Wellesley girls. Sheff sends his love, as usual...