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Since 1903 the sole direction of the conduct and policy of the Telegraph has been in the hands of Harry Lawson, Webster Lawson, now Viscount Burnham. His father had managed the property before him, and Lord Burnham has retained the family tone and tempo...
...With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness at a joint meeting of the German and Prussian cabinets, called to decide whether the Reich would extend to East Prussia, this year, financial aid totaling 72,000,000 gold marks. . . . Experts had displayed to the joint cabinets statistics proving that East...
Aftermath. Like most German importations, this one, effected by the Collwyn organization, enhances its drama with a slow and deliberate tempo, unfolds its story with a sombre and decisive insistence. In the remote and improbable province of Rupolosia among the barbaric villainies of a military governor, the ravages of his soldiery, and assorted chicaneries of minor characters, the widow Nadja struggles bravely to retain possession of her manor house- an edifice which, as depicted, does not justify her heroisms. In the part of this lady a new, highly able and presumably Russian actress is discovered to the U. S. screen...
...tenacity. Opera of any appreciable allegorical content are usually picked up and laid aside at random. Not so with Juggler's Kiss. It is to be read at one sitting. For Mr. Komroff is above all things a gorgeous storyteller. This power has enabled him to maintain a fascinating tempo in Juggler's Kiss, even at its allegoriest...
...Hemingway does not himself become overwrought: with fine restraint, with a knife-like humor, the author recounts the tragedies and failures of his characters. He writes in the simplest possible terms, in starling pictures, as clear and sharp as snap-shots. In the dialogue, Mr. Hemingway maintains the tempo of his stories: exciting it is, intense, profane, and idiomatic, so real it might have been recorded on a dictaphone to be set down at leisure. This nimble athletic technique seems ideally suited to the short story form. Since he wrote, "The Sun Also Rises," the author has trained down fine...