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...took a long bedtime look at a brig-antine's bulk in the broken ice 16 miles off shore. It was the Viking, seal hunting ship from which Varick Frissell* with a troupe of 15 last year took the major part of a talkie, to be named White Thunder. For continuity, he this year wanted shots of seals pupping and the pups learning to swim. He also wanted scenes of sealers dynamiting icebergs out of their ship's path. The Viking was loaded with explosives. The crew of 139 would take care of the rough work. Henry Jackson...
...England with a big black dog, believes in witches although she has never seen the devil in person. Other books: Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The Espalier. Mark Van Doren, lean and serious onetime literary editor of the lean and radical Nation, has also written Spring Thunder, 7 P.M. and Other Poems...
Then up rose Senator Borah to thunder one of those speeches which stir men's hearts and make the Senate seem really a national forum instead of an old men's bickering society. He announced that if Leader Tilson of the House was going to make it a matter of principle, then he, Borah of the Senate, accepted the challenge...
...thunder and most of the comedy is stolen from the leading man and woman, by the maid-of-all-work and one who is billed as Cool Kelly. Practically everything either of these touches turns to laughter, partially the result of their being given good lines and equally the result of their natural comedy gifts...
Movement of emotions, play of ideas, and a succession of delicately worked out situations, held the interest of an audience which must have been far more familiar with the more common and more obvious elements of rough, slapstick comedy, blood-and-thunder melodrama, and mawkishly sentimental love tales. "A Month in the Country" is an evening of quiet. One cannot laugh often, but one is forced to smile frequently. One does not sit on the edge of his chair, but, on the other hand, neither does one drowse...