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... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Gay and Grim By James Agate NOT always do we feel disposed to visit the cinema: there are days and days. So, after cutting our finger, upsetting the ink-pot on to our priceless Axminster, put ting two important business letters into the wrong envelopes, using a new mouth-wash instead of the accustomed Nufix for what we humorously call our hair, and ending up with ...
... By Horace Horsnell Arsenic and Old Lace (Strand) THOUGH poised to begin with somewhat perilously between the comic and the macabre, this ruthless comedy comes down so deftly on the side of the wicked burlesque that laughter, which might have been self-conscious or constrained, becomes both spontaneous and full-throated. Its theme is homicidal mania; its two most charming characters are active ...
... By Horace Horsnell The Romance of David Garrick (St. James s) YOUNG actors, who take their profession at least as seriously as they take themselves, are sometimes conscious of the classics, and aspire to play the classic roles. Circum stances, however, hot only alter cases, but are apt to thwart ambitions. The theatre, too, is not an academy of art but a business concern in which young actors ...
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... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Adult and Juvenile By James Agate OUT of the blue or the cellars of Studio One, which amounts to very much the same thing, comes Derrière la Facade, a small French film so good that it takes all Hollywood's monster productions between finger and thumb and puts them into a sack, which it then deposits in the Atlantic half-way between Hollywood and the port of entry into ...
... By Horace Horsnell Cinderella (Stoll) PANTOMIME, like beer, is a wonderful leveller. It removes inhibitions from both sides of the footlights, and absolves actors and audience alike from taking themselves too seriously. It has rhyme, but little reason, and is no respecter of persons. Kings are of less account than commoners; licence is the order of the state. The fabric of the story it tells ...