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...Flags (Twentieth Century-Fox). This great-aunt of all Foreign Legion stories was written in 1867 by Louise de la Ramee (Ouida), performed on the U. S. stage by Blanche Bates, in the silent cinema by Theda Bara (1916) and Priscilla Dean (1922). The current version, costly, handsome and overlong, offers a concession to modernity: Gregory Ratoff, as a Legionnaire, says with a thick Yiddish accent: "We're all supposed to be trying to forget something, but there's so much noise around here I can't remember what it is I'm supposed to forget...
This he promptly did. His father gave him a part in a curtain-raiser, cast as Paris, but Sacha stayed overlong reading a new play, was late, lost his wig and appeared on the stage half in costume, out of breath, his helmet dropping down over his eyes and ears. As Helen's welcoming words were, "Here comes my beautiful Paris!" the cast burst into laughter, began to ad lib, until the audience stamped in unison. Quarreling with his father, Sacha ran away. He appeared in a comedy in the provinces, lost his mustachios, forgot his lines...
Playwright Anderson, whose simple maxim is that "somebody must write verse plays," has clothed his piece intentionally as well as unintentionally in an uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
...week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth-of-July oratory, gives the general impression that in its composition an agreeably funny idea has been sacrificed for the sake of a stale parody and a secretly serious purpose...
...Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine is no cinema director and the sight of Harry Strauss at the police line-up filled him with honest fury. The 25-year-old Brooklynite was there on a charge of beating to death a Negro gasoline station attendant for keeping him waiting overlong. Seventeen times before Harry Strauss had been arrested on such charges as homicide, carrying a revolver, larceny, assault, possessing narcotics and seventeen times before the New York police had been unable to tag him with a court conviction. To 200 assembled detectives Commissioner Valentine repeated his command...