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Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis. I want to say that Judy Garland has sparkle, but that sounds paltry: the imagery of her life has always been more like a shooting star, burning out fast but brilliant. This movie lies at the zenith of her arc, anyway, and she's a wonder, starched and rosy-cheeked and singing Trolley Song with an energy that makes her creditable daughter Liza Minelli look like a radiator. The 1944 color in this Vincente Minelli (the same) period piece is gaudy, sumptuous and eerie-looking relative to the hushed or sheeny tones...
...these dirt sketch pads, she says, they could break down each drawing into its component parts. Straight lines could be drawn by stretching a rope between two stakes. Curves represented more of a challenge. The ancient draftsmen apparently dealt with it by breaking each curve into smaller, linked arcs. Recognizing that the arcs represented sections of the circumferences of different-sized circles, they could have anchored one end of a string to a rock or stake at the center of the appropriate circle and with the other end traced out the necessary arc. Once the designers established the proper relationships...
...m.p.h. gale is blowing in a blinding sheet of snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about on the slippery, freezing deck like madmen. No need to shout here: the screaming wind and throbbing drill machinery make conversation next to impossible...
...city? Maybe to survive in that city crowded like sardines, people develop over-developed larynxes? Whatever the reason, it's the noise the women make that counts. Still it does sound at times like just about every middle class woman in the city is trying to be Joan of Arc...
HILLES LIBRARY Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath, Oct. 26 at 9:30, Oct. 27 at 3:45, $1, Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc, Oct. 26 at 8, Oct. 27 at 2:30, free...