Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close-ups of Miss Dietrich, the skillful contrast of the gowns she wears as Angel and Maria's tailored English costumes, the detail of the sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove Mr. Lubitsch master...
Result was a stimulating book to warm the heart or ruffle the hackles of every born controversialist. By the folklore of capitalism Thurman Arnold means "those ideas about social organization which are not regarded as folklore but accepted as fundamental principles of law and economics." He sets out to show that the lot of them are myths. Among the "myths" he attacks...
...married two girls at once simply because he loved them both. After two months of meditation the producers decided that such wantonness would never go down, so Jack Buchanan was allowed wife No. 2 only because he thought No. 1 was lost in a shipwreck. Unfortunately for the show, this unworkable narrative contrivance does not go down so well either, but the music and dancing are topnotch, and Howard Dietz's lyrics are vastly superior to his book. When Jack Buchanan stops shuttling between boudoirs, he sings the best of the Schwartz tunes, By Myself, in an impressive...
...last fortnight a chic, puckish young woman with bright black eyes and thick black bangs who practices several arts with ability and calls herself a "mime" (she pronounces it "meem") had a show of gouaches and drawings in Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries, gave her first Manhattan's theatre performances of the season and published her first book.* Pretty well shot by this triple demonstration was a ten-year-old, popular suspicion that Angna Enters is merely highbrow...
...soon show a profit as a Field investment...