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Some strange new names were glowing on movie marquees last week-Betty ("Ball of Fire") Rowland, Genii Young, Deenah Prince-and there were stranger things inside. In such films as International Burlesque, a New York outfit named Jewel Productions was profitably peddling a-brand-new movie line: old-fashioned flesh-and-spangle shows straight from the burlesque stage, converted to the screen with slight additions to the costumes and subtractions from the gags...
Escher's Other World shows an even stranger craving, the desire to see in three directions at once. The three corner windows in the picture are repetitions of the same window looking out toward the horizon, down toward the ground and up into the night...
...plot is little more than a loosely-connected series of incidents. Truth may well be stranger than fiction, but, as "Odette" demonstrates, in the theatre it often appears less convincing...
...Antolin finds Madrid a city swamped in extremes of poverty and black-market corruption, ruled by ubiquitous police, in & out of uniform. His own family drives him to alternating spells of despair and disgust. Señora Luisa, his wife, has become a stranger, ugly, shrewish, and a convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape...
...Truth Is ... The stranger, a Captain Roy Archer, is attached to an infantry regiment stationed near by. From the first moment, Captain Archer fascinates and dominates Langrish, and when the captain invites him to drive into town to see a boxing match that night, Langrish happily accepts. Everything about Archer is mysterious: his talk about an imminent "crisis" and the need for dedicated soldiers, his warning that the "other lot," the enemy, is getting ready to attack, the tattooed sword and snake...