Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatic effect of Paths of Glory seems somehow to miss the full impact of What Price Glory? or Journey's End, it is probably due to a slight flaw in the matter of illusion. It is a little distracting to hear men dressed as French soldiers yearn for Paris and their native villages in honest New Yorkese. As the two most prominent of the condemned men, however, a pair of extremely credible performances are turned in by young Actor Myron McCormick, late of the Princeton Triangle Show, and oldtime Actor William Harrigan, commander of the 3rd Battalion...
...Lake was decidedly unlucky when mounting his camel just before the ascent of Mr. Serabit on the Sinali Peninsula and gave the muscles of his back a severe wrenching. Once in the saddle, however, he decided to continue the journey up the mountain, believing the injury to be slight...
...rather slight story of The Great Waltz is built around the careers of the Johann Strausses--father and son. Guy Robertson lends grace to the figure of Young Strauss as an artist in love, praying for recognition for his music, and balked by a jealous father. Marie Burke is very satisfying as the Countess who sponsors his career and finally brings him his "great chance...
...begin to call on him. They want his body for football, rowing, or the army training corps; they want his eloquence for the Union Debating Society or for the Communist Club; they want his soul for the Oxford group or the college mission. There is always, of course, a slight subscription, purely nominal...
...production of a play starring Cardini, the famed magician, there was considerable apprehension in "the circles" as to just what sort of drama could be erected about his suave but untested histrionics. The apprehension was justified. "The Ascending Dragon" is good entertainment when Cardini is performing his wondrous slight of hand with cards and cigarettes. As a mystery drama it doesn't excite much praise. Slow moving, not particularly clever in construction, weighted with a burden of dull lines it looks like the season's first "also...