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Shadow tries hard to make exciting capital out of Private Detective Nick Charles's solution of the deaths of a jockey, a blackmailing reporter and a racetrack tout, occasionally succeeds, more often falls flat on its formula. Actors Powell & Loy do not try as hard as the rest, appear to be just going through the paces. Result: a typed who-done...
Nostalgic reminiscences on the pre-1929 era of decadence, short skirts, and "tout ce qu'il-y-a plus chic" partake of one of the strongest traditions on the Advocate, of which Marvin Barrett's "The Party" in the previous issue was a continuation. In this vein is "The Year the Rain Came to Deauville" by Curtis Thomas, a narrative-essay on the super-sophisticated international set which located its feverish merriments at the resort towns of France. The sub-title is "Or Why France Fell," and an Editor's Note gives a sociological twist probably not intended...
...Only artist present who was represented in the show was greying, thickset Fernand Léger, who couldn't be lionized because almost nobody spoke French, but who stood defiantly in the middle of the gallery where his 31 pictures were hung, waved his hands and muttered: "Tout...
There are almost as many loony properties on the stage as in Hellzapoppin. Least loony is the horse. Trilby, which appears in person. Ezra Stone makes the scientifical cousin almost as objectionable as his family thinks he is. Lou Lubin is hilarious as a tough little race-track tout. At times the play promises to develop a surrealist edge and wit. It never keeps its promise...
...zippy theme song like Landon's Oh! Susanna or Roosevelt's Happy Days Are Here Again rocked Philadelphia's vast, egg-shaped Convention Hall. Slogans were as uninspiring as the candidates they sought to tout-slogans like "Trust-in-Taft," "A Top Scholar-Taft," "Do It With Dewey," "Gannett-America's Best Bet," and Vandenberg's labels on yellow fans, which came in handy in the hot Convention Hall-"Fan with...