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...Boles who makes love to a newcomer, Margaret Sullavan, with plenty of savoir and no little wissen. Miss Sullavan shows herself a capable mime. She has a certain un-Holly-woodian freshness about her, a spontaneity found all too seldom in screen stars. She delivers her lines with sparkling zest, and can look and without looking stupid. Only on the deathbed scene does she become a bit wearying. Her face is just pretty--not beautiful, but attractive. her figure is, of course, flawless, and she wears clothes as they should be worn. The stars are well backed up by Billie...
...childhood is always poignantly brought home to us whenever we read so excellent a story as that of the Colonel's children. There are three of them, all under the care of the most entertaining Mammy there ever could be, and it is she who provides the pathos and zest in her lovingly abusive handling of these refractory "chillun". The locale might be any southern town and the phrases of the youngsters are largely composed of the rich, picturesque language of the Negro...
...adds zest to the summer if you playfully conceal anything you may find on the chairs...
...year, shrewd old Carl Laemmle Sr. last week revealed a few of his immediate plans: a cinema biography of the late Flo Ziegfeld, written by his widow Billie Burke; a dramatization of Only Yesterday to make all but youngsters recall the Nineteen Twenties;-'Charles G. Norris' lusty Zest; a story by Harold Bell Wright called Ma Cinderella, and Vicki Baum's I Give My Love...
...diaries ever written. Arnold Bennett, like the great Sam Johnson, was that rare and peculiarly English product, the apotheosis of brilliant common sense. Unlike Sam Johnson, Bennett was naturally energetic, ambitious, insatiably curious, versatile. Life had an appetizing savor to him; he lived it and wrote about it with zest. Coincident with this third volume of the Journal the Viking Press publishes a one-volume edition ($5), which the Literary Guild has made its June selection...