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The Jolson Story (Columbia) is a fine, noisy celebration of Hollywood's two decades of talking movies. To the embarrassment of Warner Bros., currently whooping up the 20th anniversary of sound (which they started) with some none-too-skillful pictures, this splashy, expert piece of entertainment was made by...
In this welter of stubbornness, tough talk and bad feeling, what could Mr. King do? If he stood firm on the 10? line, as his colleagues had done in his absence, he would just prolong the trouble. Yet if he agreed to the union's demand, and repudiated his...
This description by a Chinese philosopher of the 3rd Century B.C. serves as a prelude to one of the 34 grim studies in contemporary psychosis (that make up Anna Kavan's Asylum Piece. Despite lushness of metaphor and over-ornamentation of style, it is skillful fiction by a 30...
Out of the Fog. Pearson's Wilde is a skillful synthesis of earlier books, amended by such facts and opinions as he was able to gather at firsthand. "No one," he declares, "[has] yet attempted to reconstruct Wilde as a great character.. . . Far too much attention [has] been...
Your article on Nature's gyroscopes [TIME, June 10] is the most skillful piece of popular technical writing I have ever read. It is a masterpiece of brevity, completeness and accuracy.