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...dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a House Dog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good day's sport, he always gave the House Dog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying: 'It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate in the fruits of my exertions.' The House Dog replied, 'Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master...
Regrettably the part can spoil the whole. When the play concerns itself only with marital exchanges, everyone is visibly more comfortable. Coward handles this type of misadventure with a high style which makes even the exposition glitter. Miss Fontanne is an actress of this same style and so is rewarded with the best of the play's dialogue. Or perhaps she merely makes it seem the best; she is capable of that deception...
Actress Lollobrigida won the Silver Ribbon (the Italian Oscar) for her work in this picture, and in truth she throws herself into the part so violently that once or twice she almost throws herself out of her dress. She is perhaps unwise thus to spoil her own act by inviting comparison with a far more spectacular...
Laughing to Live. Rude bits of action interrupt these yarns. Amid flying swords and javelins, a robber tyrant takes Sita for his spoil, and the once dutiful wife rather likes it. In a war of comic confusion, Rama conquers the tyrant, wins Sita back, and, when his own evil father dies, resumes his rightful throne. The moral of it all? Rama asks as much of Poet Valmiki: "Is there anything that you believe is real?" Replies the poet (and the answer is obviously that of Hindu-Irish Author Menen): "Certainly, Rama. There are three things which are real: God, human...
...themselves-but they offer a cloud no bigger than a TV screen on the Sunday horizon. The increase in their numbers means that network program directors have discovered that Sunday can be a pretty good thing after all. In this frame of mind, they could spoil everything by making Sunday an everyday affair...