Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constance Cummings, a handsome, vigorous young woman, seems to enjoy the male impersonation, slapstick, and rough-house required for her. But since there is little room for anything else, this play can scarcely make or break her as a straightforward actress. For her sake it is to be hoped that "If I Were You" does not prove too successful. Not to mention a free-for-all including her, her wife, and the Irish maid, she is forced to kneel on the floor with the man lying on top of her, back to back and beat on the floor with...
VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...
...common program of action but to toss individual contributions into a hopper of common learning. The preoccupations of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for '"promoting useful knowledge," concern almost every kind of science. Preoccupation of the American Physical Society, founded in 1899, is straightforward physics, let the philosophical chips fall where they may; but physics may include anything from the electrical conductivity of a safety pin to the fringes of the universe. Last week the American Philosophical Society assembled in Philadelphia and the American Physical Society convened in Chicago. Noteworthy topics discussed...
...somewhat embittered candor, somewhat graveled acquiescence. In The New World, with a more opinionated candor and a more griped acquiescence he looks at U. S. history not on its level but reverentially from below and disgustedly from above, presents accordingly a vertically wall-eyed view of it. But his straightforward earnestness is as honest as his previous straightforward sight, and all U. S. readers will find themselves rising to their feet at Poet Masters' benediction...
...those who are bored with the inexorable succession of extravaganzas emerging from Hollywood, the French picture "Mayerling," currently showing Danielle Darrieux, as the Austrian Baroness Marie, is refreshingly free from California glamour, and Charles Boyer, as the Archduke Rudolph, is straightforward and masculine. The plot, which concerns their tragic love, is simple and direct, leading to a forceful climax and concluding forthwith. There is no insipid anti-climax...