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...acquisition of the apparatus heralds two major changes in CRIMSON policy. First, the 45-minute camera-to-press interval permits inclusion of photographs of unscheduled nocturnal events, where previously the consumption of time involved in sending a picture to be engraved in Boston by the tedious zinc-and-acid progress ruled out late shots...
...accused of conspiring to overthrow the Government by force, the wheels of justice had squeaked and groaned, but had not turned an inch. As a prelude to the trial, the five defense attorneys had challenged the federal jury system in New York. Then they had used up week after tedious week in shouted argument, breast-beating protest, endless examination of witnesses and a concerted caterwauling at the bench...
...five days last week in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, some 12,000 parents, doctors and social workers turned out for the first National Conference on Cerebral Palsy. Research and slow, tedious treatment have proved that 75% of the cerebral palsied can be rehabilitated; many have above-normal intelligence...
Full of fine tall tales, Aquilon is itself a sadly skinny one. Playwright Aumont obviously wrote it as a gift for Actor Aumont. Adapter Barry did nothing to take it away. While Aumont is sloshing his emphatic charm all over the stage, the script is dousing everything with tedious chatter. Consoling but not countervailing is the quieter charm of Cinemactress Palmer...
...therefore really incredible that the new motion-picture, "Joan of Arc," is such a very bad one. Considering the talent and the story, a worse job could not have been done. It is garish, turgid, and tedious. Its heavy-handedness and stupidity exemplifies much that is wrong with Hollywood. It is Joan of the Arc Lights...