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...wordy book about the era when the movies were learning to talk is a rather strenuous satire, without much warmth or wit. Kelly is a silent-film favorite who makes the transition to talkies with the help and kibitzing of sidekick Donald O'Connor. Jean Hagen is Kelly's beautiful-but-not-so-bright leading lady whose squeaky voice is not O.K. for sound. Debbie Reynolds, the girl hired to do Jean's behind-the-camera talking and singing, finally wins both public acclaim and Kelly...
...English parson and received a conventional English middle-class education. At the age of 19 he fell ill, and doctors suggested the clear warmth of South Africa. He took a job there, working among people afflicted with leprosy. He went home in 1930 and a little later was ordained an Anglican priest. He worked in a country parish, in a quietly rich London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain...
...Colonel Fletcher had come too far to quit. The two-men stood within a foot of each other, their hands over their faces, mumbling against the cold that numbs men's minds. Every now & then they would drop their hands and jump about violently for warmth. Eventually Fletcher won the argument. He and his two assistants were permitted to stay, and General Old pitched in to help unload supplies...
Leslie Chabay cleared the air with his luminous renditions of six German songs. Expertly accompanied by Mr. Frank, he sang these settings of Goethe poems with warmth and clarity...
Mittee is a story of South Africa in the 1890s, and of three people who have known each other since they were children. Mittee, the white girl, is badly spoiled. With Selina, her maid, she is an unpredictable mixture of warmth and harshness, sometimes petting her and whispering "sister" in her ear, sometimes beating her spitefully. Equally proud and far more shrewd, Selina can only cry out helplessly, "I love her and I hate her, you could never understand...