Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Skinner is not only beautiful and a superb artisan. Her production is as polished, professional, and thoroughly competent as any that has come to Boston this year. Shaw is never dull even when played badly; when played as beautifully as it was last night before a spell-bound audience at the Colonial it is superb...
...Although Miss Skinner's performance is deft and sure, she does not hog this show. With the exception of Philip Faversham, who is colossally unconvincing as the Reverend James' worshipping young assistant, the cast is excellent. John Cromwell is a sensitive and appealing Marchbanks; in clumsier hands Marchbanks can be clowned like a Tarkingtonian adolescent. Onslow Stevens as well as Cromwell has steered clear of extremes. His Morell id not too pompous and too fond of his own voice to be loved by Candida. And Dorothy Sands is the old-maid incarnate in the role of Miss Proserpine Garnett, Morell...
Critics threw their hats in the air, hailed Miss Porter as one of the most promising American writers when it first appeared in 1930. They tossed them again, finding her just as promising, when it was republished...
Last week she kept her promise. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three short novels which belong with the best of contemporary U. S. writing in this difficult form. A distinctive book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively...
...KEITH MEMORIAL--Little Miss Fixit, alias Deanna Durbin, wends her charming way through another of the average stories Hollywood has bestowed on her, and comes out on top by virtue of a clever script, her own unforced gaiety, and the really remarkable Durbin voice. Those who cringe at the mere mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall...