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...seemed almost as if the U.S. woman just doesn't care enough. Take a Frenchwoman, going out for the evening. "She will have thought for hours about her entrance. If she is tired, she is simply 'not at home' all day . . . She may take a 'shade bath' (chaise longue, darkened room, eyepads) for two hours . . . Inevitably, a trip to the hairdressers . . . She knows her dress. If it is a line that stands better than it sits, she will spend the evening standing-and standing in a particular posture . . . Say what you will, the effect...
...experts, Bernard Berenson, was instantly reminded, when he first saw them, of "the Early Christian sarcophagi that line the grand staircase of the Lateran Museum in Rome. The same stumpy, neckless bodies, with disproportionately big heads of late antique shape, the same crowding, the same . . . distribution of light and shade...
Like other U.S. cities, Brooklyn in those days was plagued by bugs. The shy and decorative native birds did not like city life. As U.S. cities expanded, the birds retired to rural refuges, leaving the shade trees and flower gardens defenseless against insects. Officials of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences discussed the problem at length, finally sent to England for an urban bird: the English sparrow...
...irrelevantly titled script gets no help from Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco's studied straining for effects. Example: in Garfield's deathbed scene, a nurse gratuitously draws a window shade so that a shadow can fall over his face. Nor do the picture's hand-me-down roles make for good performances. France's Actress Prelle (formerly Presle), whose delicate playing was a major asset to Devil in the Flesh, has been transformed by more than a change of spelling. She is unimpressive in a role that makes her lift a wan voice in three interminable...
...time was 4:09.5, a shade slower than the 4:09.3 at which both men had been clocked in the Wanamaker. But Gehrmann was content; he was thinking about those eight yards of air between him and Fred Wilt. Said he: "I guess they can't argue about that...