Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With an ideal production, the play might be a sort of animated Chinese screen portraying a charming, ancient tale of love triumphant over legal corruption. The Studio Theatre's revival has something of this quality, especially in the porcelain grace of the heroine, acted by little Dolly Haas, a German actress. But some of the actors lack her flair, with the result that the play provides mostly a rather precious kind of tedium...
...Reisch screen play moves like the flow of molasses. Possibly because the narrative is a series of flashback recollections of Lady Hamilton, reclining in prison during her alcoholic dotage, its ponderous plodding can be attributed to the senility of the narrator. All Lady Hamilton offers in her two-hour tale is an extravagant picture of court finery, a romantic rehash of the exploits of the British fleet under Nelson, a fuzzy sketch of Nelson himself, a dazzling portrait of her own staggering beauty. There is no more feeling of life than in a billboard...
Overworked John R. Steelman, chief of the U. S. Conciliation Service, returned to Washington at week's end, red-eyed and haggard after a trip to Milwaukee. He poured a tale of woe into the ear of his boss, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. What he said was private...
...Maugham tale could have no better setting than the swank Muthaiga Country Club on a cooling hill outside flat, sunny Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony. Scarcely one hour's drive from the haunts of zebra, giraffe and hartebeest, the Mut-haiga's members have built themselves a sporting retreat as refreshing as those they remember in Old England. From the club terrace, after nightfall, visitors may watch red, green and white fireflies flickering over the Kikuyu grass lawns...
Anatomically speaking, Henry Fonda is well-situated in the co-featured "Chad Hanna." This circus tale by Harvardman Walter Edmonds '26 is in technicolor, with Linda Darnell's entire back and Dorothy Lamour's legs combining to give Henry a ninety-minute frustration. We feel for you Henry...