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...excellent comedy of character and circumstance, however, the discrepancies in the story may be ignored. But one confusing element would seem regrettable: first the little teller promises his wife that someday he will be rich and famous; then his sensational adventure comes about apparently as an accident. The result is that the slightly bewildered spectator doesn't know whether to regard him as the epitome of respectability that he has always seemed, or a Borgia in disguise. This uncertainty does not add to the interest. There is an amusing uncertainty springing up in the third act, however, over whether...
...stronger on the Barcelona Government side as a whole, except for certain sections of Franco's troops, such as the Navarrese and what remains of the Foreign Legion. The Government also seems to have the superiority in motor transport, and this is very important militarily. Any greater result than an initial success in a surprised offensive depends on the rapidity with which attacker and defender can rush up reserves, to deepen or close the breach respectively...
...Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations of previous Hitchcock films, but is, nevertheless, a fair sample of Hitchcock devices...
...first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because European scholars and critics of authority collaborated in their making. Craftsmen admire them because their reproductions are the result of painstaking care and patience which has often extended to six months' labor on a single plate...
...leaders, explorers and prominent people generally, Joseph Mitchell came to the conclusion that "the best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes...