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... DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS AT THE WESTMINSTER THEATRE By ALAN BOTT OUTSIDE the spoken words, Mr. Eugene O'Neill asks a lot from any actress playing Abbie in his Desire Under the Elms, which has been licensed at last by the Lord Chamberlain for public performance in this England. Her face, according to the author's direc tions, should express rather gross sensuality; strength and obstinacy ...

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... Pinocchio Walt Disney, like the Blue Fairy, brings the puppet to life in his second full-length colour cartoon For the screen successor to German Jacob Grimm's Snow White, Disney has turned to the other end of the ex-axis, and picked an Italian fable set down by Collodi. The story of Pinocchio, the puppet hoy who comes to life, has provided Dr. Disney's genius with the ideal frame tor ...

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