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...galleryites got a chance to judge Edward Lear the artist through his spontaneous sketches. "Oh, dear, dear, dear," Lear once wrote, "the more I see of nature, the more sure I am that one Edward Lear should never have attempted to represent her. Yet . . . I know there is a vein of poetry in me that ought to have come out." If anywhere it did come out, fresh & free, it was in the pale and delicate watercolors he jotted down in a few feverish moments...
...Front Page" will break the Deacoucustom of Restoration bawdiness on December 17, but the Bunuies will continue in that vein with a production of Wycherley's "Country Wife" the same evening...
...records, "Tiger Rag," is similar to an older American version, except that the final trumpet solo has the phrase "I wandered today to the hill, Maggic" instead of the earlier "Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag pole." Continuing in the community song vein later on are snatches from "Tea For Two" and "Pat On Your Old Grey Bonnet...
Whatever the causes of this English cinema introversion may be, and despite the "all that is British is good" results it leads to, it must be admitted that the films in question have been done in a highly literate vein. Bit it would be refreshing to see the same English film qualities of insight, subtlety, and pictorial honesty applied to non-English and perhaps less prejudiced fields now and then. Despite their quality, the same English faces and the same British virtues threaten to bore emotionally and intellectually...
More than one-sixth of the total has been raised already and under the direction of the Radcliffe Enterprises, no stone--at least none with a rich vein in it--is being left unturned...