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...quite as plausible as highly intelligent satire need be. In his hands, too, it is the excuse and occasion for the things he particularly wants to talk about. Scattered in short (but stiff) doses throughout the narrative, they are spoken by a Mr. Propter, the straightest and maturest straight man Mr. Huxley has ever permitted himself. As he speaks them, they are some of the firmest, most beautifully articulate essays Huxley has ever written...
...this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full course of Cathy's and Heathcliff's passion. Mr. Olivier is particularly good as the gypsy lover, catching all of that character's mysterious and dangerous attraction. Maturest entertainment to come out of Hollywood in some time, "Wuthering Heights" does not "aim to please"; it is substantial intellectual fare, a straightforward dramatization of a unique and overwhelmingly powerful story...
Brahms: Sonata in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano (David Weber and Ray Lev; Musicraft: 6 sides). Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period. Though recorded in an arrangement for viola, the F Minor sonata has waited till now for its first waxing in original form. The sonata is beautiful, the performance adequate...
Columbia Pictures runs a gamut of its own, from the frankest sort of penny-thriller melodrama to the maturest. best-ordered and funniest comedy in cinema. For Columbia's good standing with the carriage trade, the men chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize...
...face has a blind dignity and pathos and the forms mount up in strange rhythm from the vast limbs set in a rough base. . . . The concision of the design ... is in Epstein's maturest manner. In this work the sculptor has given us his conception of the primeval mother of the scientists to set beside the 'Eve' of the classics. There is surely room for it in the world...