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England's Sitwell trio (Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell), sophisticated rather than passionate poets, conceal their artistry beneath Sitwellian artificiality that annoys many a plain person, delights their devotees and themselves. But occasionally, as in Brother Osbert's Dumb-Animal stories, humanity cracks the super-Etonian veneer, sentiment overcomes even a Sitwell and enables him to communicate with...
...serious reversal for President Hoover and his Administration. Last month he personally visited three States (Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina). In each of them the election tide ran against him. Directly or indirectly he and his actions, or lack of action, were implicit issues under the criss-cross veneer of local questions. Voters struck...
...Long Road. Given an inferior actor for the leading role. The Long Road might have been a well-documented, thoughtful, but overlong play. Playwright Hugh Stange (Veneer, Fog-Bound) apparently has a talent for the sort of literary clairvoyance which goes well in novels, but he lacks the ability to condense, solidify and invigorate his material for dramatic presentation. Only a superior player like Otto Kruger (The Game of Love & Death, Karl & Anna), whose Barrymorose features were used to great success in The Royal Family, could have succeeded in interpreting the nuances of Playwright Stange, breathing the breath of life...
...cannot say that we have ever had much sympathy for the Harvard nonchalance, the veneer of aloofness and superficial polish which is in the mind of the Middle West the chief characteristic of the Harvard product. Surface sophistication is as meaningless as a cup of sugar and cream and hot water without coffee...
Significance. The House showed a strong and unprecedented inclination to resist the dictates of the Anti-Saloon League on prohibition legislation. Beneath the parliamentary complications of the issue and the veneer of fiscal concern about the Budget system seemed to lie a tendency, even among ardent drys, to follow the commands of the new Administration and pursue moderate, middle-of-the-road enforcement?in other words, to continue the farce with politic solemnity and let Mr. Hoover proceed "constructively" with the "experiment . . . noble in motive...