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...will therefore only enhance an already established reputation. It is an extremely creditable enhancement, however, and will suffer, and then slightly, only when compared with its predecessor. It fulfils the promise of "The Time Of Man" much more successfully than Miss Kennedy's "Red Sky At Morning" fulfils the splendor of "The Constant Nymph...
...Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...
...first concert. She played Weber's Oberon overture, Frederick Delius's C Minor Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave the verdict common to enterprises of the gentler sex: That (for women...
...SPLENDOR-Ben Ames Williams- Button ($2.50). Quietly and carefully Author Williams tells the story of Henry Beeker, faithful newspaperman. Son of a blacksmith father, Henry enters the employ of a Boston newspaper as an office-boy-just for a summer vacation period. He does his work well and is encouraged to give up school, to remain with the paper. Filled with splendid visions, he agrees. Follow years of small successes, small sorrows, marriage, babies, undimmed visions. Life's autumn finds Henry definitely shelved -almost pensioned-in the profession he has studied so long but never conquered. He still gazes...
...dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive to rescue both of them. The melodrama of the story would make it seem strained in any setting; but such is the splendor of the background that probably any play of human emotions would be dwarfed against it. Brilliant photography of snow storms and ski races, capable if not superlative acting by Leni Riefenstahl, Louis Trenker and Ernst Peterson, make the picture a valuable and exciting experiment in spectacle and a worthy product...