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Director Reed also does well with his interpretation of the physical Bobby Henrey. For once, a child movie actor is made to act with all the awkward, sham-Dling, sleepwalking unawareness that normal children have when they are not caught in the glare of klieglights or an adult eye. The result is a subtle, absorbing drama of natural child behavior. A brilliant tour de force as entertainment, Idol could also be a useful object lesson on how to restore he Hollywood child to childhood...
...Lucifer with a Book" describes the thoughts and experiences of a young veteran during his first--and last--year as an instructor at The Academy Fortunately gifted with more than a little insight and maturity, Guy Hudson unsuccessfully bucks the sham and hypocrisy of the school's ingrown existence, causing a mild upheaval in the Faculty. He is all too glad to leave The Academy in June with his pregnant sweetheart (a teacher at the neighboring Girls' School...
...true with the rifle, ready with [the] pen and quick at the typecase." But Kemble just didn't seem to have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news. Then they had to shut up shop. Every gullible soul in town had gone tearing...
...Luck of the Irish (20th Century-Fox) burdens a pleasant little comedy with a forbiddingly sticky title. The movie is just about as sham as most shamrock tales, but, with one exception, it is presented with taste and ingenuity. The exception: sequences taking place in Ireland are smeared with a green tint that displays the world as through a shower curtain...
...last week, Communications Industry Minister Gennady Vasilievich Alexenko patiently repeated that the man who first developed radio (in the year 1895) was Alexander Popov of St. Petersburg. (Popov had thought up radar, too.) And what of the world's acclaim for Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi? Said Moscow: "Sham laurels...