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Author Luhan is a nature-lover: "It is delicious to participate with the cat in the deep within the penetrating domestic quietude of the somnolent interior, yet it is not so precious and uplifting as the tender, wakeful participation with the birds." Her description of Taos scenery and climate, especially from her window, are lingeringly loving. But life in a New Mexican ranch house, however comfortably fixed up, is fraught with more than contemplation. Chatelaine Luhan finds it strenuous: "For every single time I have to attend to anything, whether it's a horse, or a telegram from goodness...
Last week it was Lotte Lehmann's turn to exhibit a Tosca who was a simple, genuine woman, expertly tender in her scenes with Cavaradossi, wildly furious when she murdered Scarpia, crouched gloatingly over his body. The Scarpia was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and it was his big chance to add another telling impersonation to his Simone Boccanegra and his Emperor Jones. But Tibbett was no great villain. He made himself a bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle...
Freshman intending to apply for Lowell House can be assured of one meal of tender steak, good vegetables and plenty of them at least once a year if they go to the annual Winter Sports Dinner where the winning athletic teams and members of the House not on the House committee receive books for general helpfulness...
...their meaning, seeming, in fact, just a bit ridiculous. They have a tendency, in addition, to give the whole the appearance of having been rather sketchily and loosely thrown together. Much of the depth of the story, as experienced by reading the book, is lost; although enough of the tender pathos and bitter struggle and loving adoration of the original still remains to bring the narrative vividly to life, a quality which is greatly enhanced by the high standard of acting on the part of the whole cast...
...recites the Gettysburg Address, he does so from his heart and the full solemnity of its 266 words is in the bashful quaver of his voice. That this fable of a transplanted menial who becomes hero of a town which he describes as "a remote settlement" is as tender and as softly humorous now as it was when Harry Leon Wilson wrote it 20 years ago, is not due entirely to Charles Laughton's superbly skillful performance as the hero. It is not due entirely to the intonations supplied in minor parts by Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, ZaSu Pitts...