Word: ruefulnesses
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...dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after...
Vincent Sheean became a reporter to satisfy a perennial upbubbling curiosity. He ceased to be a reporter because he began thinking about the meaning of events, commenced to take sides, to make what the philosophers call value-judgments. Personal History is the warm, semi-rueful story of how this sea-change came about as Sheean wandered from Chicago to New York, to Paris, to Persia, to China, to the Holy Land, to dinner parties in London and around the lecture circuit...
...desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...
...Datsun advertisements the happy passengers are whites, even when the entire text is in Japanese. Prices f.o.b. Yokohama: Roadster, Yen 1,775 ($514.75); Phaeton, Yen 1,850 ($536.50) ; Sedan, Yen 1,975 ($572.75).* Advertised mileage: 50 per gallon. Speed: 45 m.p.h. Rueful Manhattan executives of Mitsubishi admit that there is not a single Datsun in North America (Chile has many), offer eagerly to supply a sedan (considered their swankiest model) for $660 at Mitsubishi Co. Ltd., No. 120 Broadway...
...rival of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in schemes to make Chinese more virtuous (see above) is cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...