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...Arden Varsity. No geographical tag could be pinned on the Arden steeds. They had no place they could call home, despite their perfume-selling owner's sumptuous, 2,000-acre estate in Maine, and her only slightly less magnificent places in North Carolma and Arizona. Elizabeth Arden horses hit the road all year, trouping from track to track...
...Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME...
Empty Space. Chagall has painted with the eyes (but not the hand) of a child ever since. Although his visions were primitive-on-purpose, they came out far from stark. His colors were as successfully sumptuous as the most lavish ecclesiastical or imperial vestments, and for decoration he assembled a set of props (candles, roosters, violins), to "fill up the empty space in my canvas as the structure of my picture requires . . . and according to my humor...
...never quite catches the inner glow of art or the outward stir of theater. There should have been either less spectacle or less story. As it is, the old tale is retold at considerable length, but loses much of its flow and human feeling through gorgeous interruptions and sumptuous distractions. What's more, neither the writing nor the acting has quite the stylized quality it reaches after...
...Mistress Mine is the comedy the Lunts played in London last season under the no less Shakespearean title of Love in Idleness (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). It tells of an attractive, broke widow who has been living in gay, sumptuous sin with a wartime British Cabinet Minister. Then her priggish, pinko 17-year-old son (well played by Dick Van Patten) comes home after five years at school in Canada. He forces his mother to choose between him and her lover and (possibly because a show must keep going until 11 o'clock) she chooses...