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...places Actress Booth proves a sort of show-within-a-show, or a rewarding actress without one. With a look, a gesture, an intonation, she can be remarkably eloquent; but in the end the play, and even the part, is too much for her. Having taken on Miss Isobel after the hardly less piffling The Desk Set, she should next time try something more than the audience's patience...
...told him: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions in vivid and imaginative detail. Most of the answers are pulled together in a new, smoothly written book for laymen: Abraham: His Heritage...
...they shuffled with short, gingerly steps to the base hospital. Heads sunk to their chests, their breathing fast and shallow, they complained that it hurt if they breathed deeply. Any jarring motion, even from a few brisk steps, was painful. Some kept their arms folded to serve as a sort of splint for the chest...
Full of Life. A sort of delivery-room comedy, maybe a little too sentimental, but Judy Holliday gives vigorous mirth to the maybe (TIME...
...feature presentation is also a bit nostalgic. The Admirable Crichton is a very British, very enjoyable adaptation of Sir James M. Barrie's play. Crichton is a splendid butler of the turn-of-the-century sort who believes quite firmly that for a man of his birth and talents, a position as a gentleman's gentleman is ideal. Similarly, thinks Crichton, his master's ideas about equality are not only dangerous but wrong. Crichton's philosophy is sorely tested when Lord Loam and his daughter are marooned along with Crichton and a few other on a desert island...