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...trilogy of the 1930's is currently if all too briefly on view. FANNY will run through March 8. CESAR (which starts the 9th) will run till March 15. In toto, these are three of the funniest pictures ever made; Raimu, the French Charlie Chaplin, excels in what in retrospect must be called his greatest role. Your last chance in seven years. Evenings...
...confessions and geriatric observations. "There must be a gang such as ours somewhere today," said Jane Grant. "But, of course, times have changed. For one thing, the writers nowadays all marry cuties. In our day, writers were sometimes drawn to more intellectual girls." And the girls (at least in retrospect) were brighter, such as the time, someone remembered, that Nonresident Member Noel Coward looked across the table at Edna Ferber and said sweetly, "You almost look like a man.'' Said Edna Ferber...
...passengers traveling tourist, who not only stifled in their below-deck cabins but were also finally reduced to eating potatoes and beans. Once ashore, and with transportation to the U.S. or Europe promised by the Portuguese shipowners, the great majority of the travelers seemed to enjoy their adventure in retrospect...
Tizard sat out the rest of the war in retirement as president of Magdalene College, Oxford. "It is astonishing in retrospect that he should have been offered such humiliations," Snow said. "I do not think there has been a comparable example in England in this century...
...retrospect, it was terribly time-consuming, realize how much of value I missed in the academic opportunities available to me which I could not think touching because of my being busy with the Crew. gains of this experience, however, are surely considerations to a degree. I can't say that I was an introvert before the experience nor really an after it. It surely did do much, however, in getting out of my own individual world into the wide, wide of many delightful people. This has been an asset incalculable value and pleasure to me. Since I felt I never...