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...efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous "Poor Little Rich Girl" he stirred his audience to transports similar to those he used to arouse in "The Vortex." Entitled "Dance, Little Lady," it was quite a grisly warning to the black-bottomers...
...music, Noel Coward, the costar, sings, dances and otherwise performs. This is unfortunate. The adage "supreme in one, indifferent in all," very nearly applies. Mr. Coward is a clever satirist and was quite evidently born with a silver tune in his mouth, but he is still caught in The Vortex and overdoes his stuff as a consequence. His frenzied, nail-gnawing and agonized eye-rolling largely detract from the effectiveness of "Dance, Little Lady," while his indifferent voice and dancing similarly blur a number of other scenes...
Technique. The June raids in New York had been sensational because they were directed at what is supposed to be the inmost-vortex of the pleasure-chasing current of American life. Last week's developments were notable because they transmitted a realistic picture of that vortex to millions of people who had never seen it except through the falsifying medium of cinema...
...front cover) One of the two oldtime political parties, between which there is not, yet is, a great difference, was about to nominate a man for the U. S. Presidency. The vortex of the event was in the Midwestern flatlands. The result would work no immediately perceptible change in the day-to-day life of millions and millions of citizens. The result would be a headline in the newspapers, a shout across-lots, a word by radio, to the vague majority...
...Kansas City, in a hotel, with the vortex only a few blocks away, a solid, grey, squire-like man from Illinois also waited for the result. He had been a State Governor and knew the surge of popular acclaim. "No man ever ran away from the presidency," he had said. He was hoping the farmers from his section of the land would insist upon the nomination coming to him. He thought he could win the trust of all the other kinds of men whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm...