Its idea of "production value" is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision... of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundre...ds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate,--and meantime it is only puss and her tail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Saint-Saens!" it seems to be whispering, curling unerringly around the furry nuts... of the terrible puss, who is mentally flexing. Ah be with me always, spirit of noisy contemplation in the studio, the Garden of Zoos, the eternally fixed afternoons!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why does not the kitten betray some of the attributes common to the adult puss? A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus... common sense. We never hear our friends say they love puppies, but cannot bear dogs. A kitten is a thing apart; and many people who lack the discriminating enthusiasm for cats, who regard these beautiful beasts with aversion and mistrust, are won over easily, and cajoled out of their prejudices, by the deceitful wiles of kittenhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »