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Things are often said to be just like Greek tragedies, but "Winterset" really is. One vast web of highly improbable coincidence is woven so elaborately and so ingeniously that terrified suspense bangs on the turn of each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws...
...year-old, self-educated Frenchman, it has much in common with Celine's masterpiece in its mood of intense disgust, its savage satirical portraits, its hatred of hypocrisy and its wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society at a moment of great tension. Conceived in the grand manner of pre-War fiction, with a gigantic mock-heroic central character and a host of petty Flaubertian supernumeraries...
...Unfinished Symphony" is a biographical interlude in the life of Franz Schubert. Technically and pictorially it is a well-nigh perfect production. And in addition, dexterously woven into the plot are selections from Schubert, including several of his most beautiful chorales and his Symphony in B Minor...
Trusts in all their variations are woven into the whole fabric of Boston life. A Bostonian who is not either a beneficiary or trustee of at least one personal trust fund is liable to find himself at a distinct social disadvantage. Boston is the home of the oldest investment trust in the U. S.-Boston Personal Property Trust, founded in 1893. Boston is also the home of the open-end or mutual general management trust, which is usually called the "Boston-type trust...
...good father-in-law or if you need it, relief--to the movie. The love-plot is aided by the top-notch hit tune "Did I Remember," by now a bit past its prime, but nevertheless quite pleasant as Harlow sings it. And the plot, if improbable, is closely woven into an exciting story of spy intrigue and daredevil flying. Unaided by extravagant clothes to emphasize the Harlow curves, the movie is put over by clever acting and good dialogue...