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Miss Booth's performance is, of course, the highlight of the film. A strangely static character, Lola passively reacts to the hell around her but never really comprehends it. With wistful comfort from a distant but remembered past, she plods through the present listlessly, leaving her hair-brush on the...
Instead of the hair-pulling, eye-gouging "wild woman" who had hurled her rivals into various sectors of the audience only a few minutes before, I found a short, wistful, soft-spoken young lady who seemed rather awed by the presence of a Harvard man.
As he grew up, Bob Jr. was sickly. Illness hurt his career at the University of Wisconsin (where he displayed a wistful hankering for journalism) but nothing could disrupt his political education. Old Fighting Bob went to the Senate in 1906, and in Washington "Young Bob" learned politics with his...
Play and moviegoers unfamiliar with the tangled tale of Streetcar were hard put to follow the plot line, but found it gripping and disturbing nevertheless. Beaten Blanche Du Bois, danced by Slavenska, quickly revealed the incipient madness which, in the play, had a slower buildup. Thereafter, the dance action veered...
In two flashbacks, Donat portrays the haphazard life of William Friese-Greene, inventor of the first motion picture camera (the magic box). Friese-Greene was infatuated with the idea of making slides move both black and white and color. This idea soon became an obsession which dominated his life. Giving...