Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important things to note about John Golden's presentation of William Gillette in "Three Wise Fools" are relatively few and divertingly simple. The primary fact, of course, is that the very eminent Mr. Gillette again treads the boards with vigor and histrionic skill which have for so long made him a favorite and which are now filling the Shubert Theatre to the doors. It's rather hard, after all these years, to think of Mr. Gillette without the pipe and double peaked cap which accompanied his Sherlock Holmesing, but it appears that Mr. Gillette has versatility and can ably portray...
...courses, Government 18 and 30, is due great credit. Modern international relations are without doubt the most vital, the most absorbing, and the most kaleidoscopic of the factors affecting us today; but to interpret them accurately, and to summarize briefly the vast material is a job requiring great skill, personal experience, and keen intelligence. The fact that many who took Government 30 last year are sitting in on it again is a tribute to Professor Hopper's easy, up-to-date, and always humorous presentation of Asiatic affairs...
...virtue of "Gulliver's Travels" other than its satire, the meticulous portrayal of doll-house miniatures, is also retained in the picture for its universal appeal. There is an incredible technical skill in the way the tiny putty figures are handled. And the grotesque gesticulations and grimaces with which they express themselves, besides being an artistic triumph in caricature, are powerful agents in satirizing a capitalistic lust and craftiness...
...even where melodrama and co-incidence reach their height one's very solid feeling of satisfaction with the book is not diminished. Any plot, good or bad, would fade into nothing beside the consummate skill of Santayana's character-delineation and the grandeur of his expression...
...intoxicating mixture of spooks and nonsensical fun, "The Ghost Goes West", now showing at Keith Memorial, is just about the best thing in the last light-year of film reeled out of Hollywood. Jean Parker, just eighteen and refreshingly demure, is beautifully set by the skill of Rene Clair against the gentle sophistication of Robert Donat. And when haunts stop scaring you and make you laugh, you are bound to laugh twice as hard as usual...