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...Frankie and his world is the foundation of one of the finest novels so far this year. Readers with queasy stomachs may shrink from an environment in which the unbelievably sordid has become a way of life. They will also come away with some of Algren's own tender concern for his wretched, confused and hopelessly degenerate cast of characters. In that, Writer Algren scores a true novelist's triumph...
...paths of their own. One of them, Giorgio de Chirico (who has since become a crusty academician-TIME, May 16), was represented by some of his striking early work foreshadowing the Surrealists. The other was Amedeo Modigliani, a much-loved, short-lived alcoholic who was at his best painting tender nudes and portraits based on African sculpture...
Look for the Silver Lining (Warner), Hollywood's newest tender recollection of Broadway's glamourous past, tells the life story of the late Marilyn Miller. Fondly and sometimes foolishly, the script follows Marilyn (June Haver) from the day she joins up, in pigtails and high-button shoes, with her family's vaudeville act, to a fictitious revival of Sally in the 1930s. In between it sandwiches colorful chunks of a half dozen of Broadway's best-remembered shows, samplings of their biggest tune hits, reel after reel of dance routines by June Haver and Ray Bolger...
Devil in the Flesh. A tender, penetrating French view of young love in wartime (TIME, March...
Devil In the Flesh. A tender, penetrating French view of young love in wartime (TIME, March...