Word: skips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study which he dedicates "above all to John Livingston Lowes, master and friend," Mr. Calvert attempts an explanation of the "romantic paradox" of Byron through an analysis of his poems. Byron, Mr. Calvert holds, did not at one time depend upon the school of Pope and at another skip blithely to the romantic manner. The critic presents a consistent Byron, a man who contained in himself elements of both classicist and romanticist, at all times sincere; and not spasmodically, but progressively ridding himself of the superficial aspects of each until he reached his height in "Don Juan...
...Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip Faulkneresque psychology will find many a passage in Pylon that will make their breath come faster...
Sweet Music (Warner) is Rudy Vallee's most successful venture into cinema. Perceiving that the flaw in his previous productions was the fact that they required him to act, the authors of this one carefully made its hero, Skip Houston, a complimentary portrait of Vallee himself. Consequently, between songs, he is required to do little more than give an imitation of himself which he contrives to do successfully by smiling in a vacuous way and speaking in a low, bland monotone...
Since this achievement could scarcely be considered a well-rounded evening's entertainment even by Crooner Vallee's most fervent admirers, Sweet Music contains other ingredients. The story investigates Skip Houston's mismanaged romance with a Chicago tap-dancer (Ann Dvorak). Through it scrambles a host of entertaining minor characters impersonated by a quorum of Warner Brothers' large roster of comedians, notably Ned Sparks, as the dancer's irascible manager, and Allen Jenkins, as Skip Houston's pressagent. Alice White, as a scatterbrained chorus girl, does the best acting in the picture. Of Sweet...
Wildly exciting to Japanese is each fresh leap by their industry in its hop-skip-&-skid race to overtake the West. Last week a full page advertisement in the latest copy of Japan Trade shrieked: DOUBLE STAR Long-Waited-For Thing Par Excellence ADVENT OF PATENT-LEATHER SHOES!!! The unsurpassed shoes newly born! ASAHI RUBBER WORKS...