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...Chatterton (1752-1770) was the most remarkable child prodigy in the history of literature. Hungry and humiliated, he took arsenic in his bleak London garret, died before he was 18. Many a later poet lamented that Chatterton lived no longer for letters. Come of Age would have it a sadder thing still that he lived no longer for himself. Clemence Dane has clothed this fragile, moving phantasy in verse sometimes remindful of the brassy couplets of Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, sometimes of Noel Coward's flip lyrics, never of the stately pentameters...
...same day the instructor read the Sophomoric piece in the New York Herald-Tribune (and it also appeared in some Brooklyn journals). He became at once a sadder but wiser man. At the next conference the student showed him the news-paper clippings of his work, asking for a new grade. But the English instructor shook his head sadly, saying, "There are editors. . . and editors...
After Tonight (RKO). International spies in the cinema should by this time know better than to fall in love. Invariably a spy's inamorata is also a spy. When the spies find out about each other it usually produces a sadder situation than the one that arises in this picture. Constance Bennett is operative K-14 of Russia. When she is not warming up scraps of paper to make legible their messages in invisible ink she is lolling crisply in the arms of a Viennese secret agent (Gilbert Roland) and saying in her Parkavian voice how much she loves...
...Abelard slept hired bravos seized and gelded him. Now there was no longer any place for the arrogant Abelard; he who might have been a prince of the Church became its pauper. He and Heloise were separated forever. But when Authoress Waddell's story leaves him, an infinitely sadder, somewhat wiser man, his thatched hut in the country has become another lecture-hall, and once more he is emptying Paris of its scholars...
Four years ago Chicago had her St. Valentine's Day gang massacre. Sadder by far was this year's St. Valentine's Day bank massacre in Detroit-a massacre which closed both of Detroit's big banks, tying up $560,000,000 of deposits...