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In what wistful British investors remember as "the dear-money war" of 1914-18 you could rent your patriotic funds to King & country for as much as 5%. A daring pilot in the Royal Air Force in those days was Major Sir John Allsebrook Simon, who then sported a thick...
An agreeable if upsy-downsy show, Reunion in New York would be better were its performers less wistful about their homeland. In spite of a girl who wails that she wants Artie Shaw, and not Johann Strauss, the group does quite a bit of gulping for the Wiener Wald. It...
TO STEP ASIDE-Noel Coward-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Actors, writers, wistful perverts, celebrity-hounds, the occupants of cheap rooming houses, are the creatures of Noel Coward's seven stories. In detail, at times, almost indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness...
The Great Commandment (Cathedral Films), as sombre as a pogrom and sometimes as bloodcurdling, tells the story of a Jewish revolt against the Romans in 30 A.D. After treating the audience to a pretty thorough study of oppression at its Roman worst, the picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful...
Thomas Wolfe always needed editing, but not this kind. With the best will in the world and the notion that Wolfe was "first of all, a poet" the publishers have anthologized 71 pieces of descriptive, rhapsodic and wistful prose from his novels and shorter works. The effect: that of sticking...