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...agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...
...which of the beautiful princess' three suitors would succeed first in his task and win her hand; in "The 13 Clocks" the evil Duke sets a tack that cannot be done and the question is whether the here, a prince disguised as a wandering minstrel, will perish after a vain attempt...
False pregnancy, said the doctors, is mental in origin. All their patients had become overanxious, and said it was because they had tried in vain to conceive. Some had wanted a child to secure a husband's wavering affections or to prove themselves as "complete women." Usually their background included insecurity and tension, as well as frustration, and sometimes even a need for punishment. Thus beset, the mind took refuge in "pregnancy" which the body simulated...
Though he is one of the nation's ablest public schoolmen, red-faced, robust Willard Goslin, 51, has had his share of trouble in the last three or four years. In Minneapolis, as a superintendent of schools with "progressive" leanings, he fought in vain to win a bigger budget, finally quit in frustration over "the neglect and mistreatment of public education ... in Minneapolis" (TIME, May 3, 1948). Last week, as Pasadena's superintendent, Willard Goslin was deep in another...
...finely blended English cast knows how to rumble the lines or caw them, toss them to the roof or throw them away. As the soldier, Gielgud gives a dashing if slightly unmodulated performance. As the lady, Pamela Brown proves that Fry did not write the part for her in vain. No one has a more gloriously uppity charm; no voice can simultaneously so rasp and thrill; no one ever made standoffishness more come-hitherable...