Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried out with dramatic effect. The third act, however, is a distinct disappointment, for which both the writer and the performers may share some of the blame. Johnston shifts from the more intimate episodes of the earlier acts to a series of short, emotional scenes underscored with a background of rolling thunder. Not only are these effects too grandiose for the size of the theatre, but the play nearly degenerates into a series of disjointed tableaus which lend little to its meaning...
...finely styled man; he is, however, cleanly and comfortably dressed. He enjoys the casual atmosphere of Dudley and the opportunity to share his toughest with undergraduates who also face the daily trip to and from the University. He is also similar to his Dudley friends in his moderate financial background. With few exceptions, it is this lack of funds that necessitates commuting...
...axiomatic in musical comedy circles that the only people who can out-gemutlich the Alt Wienese are the Hungarians, what with their chardas and flaming Gypsy spirits. So it is of little surprise that The Gypsy Baron (pedigree: by Strauss, out of Vienna) should have Hungary as a background. The film is all the more gay for the shift, with wild music, impassioned dances and soulful violins. In short, it has what is known in the trade as schmaltz. And it is great...
Another of our London correspondents, Joan Bruce, spent Tuesday working on two music stories. One was on Sir William Walton's first opera. Troilus and Cressida (see Music). She was digging up background on the composer and his music so that the writer in New York would have this information before the premiere in Covent Garden. This done, she got ready to go to Leicestershire to track down a lead on a story that looked like a good bet for TIME'S Music section in the future...
...shorn of his feet and plainly showing the tracery of age, bombarded their newspapers with outraged protests. But the critics, after a leisurely look, generally approved of its color harmonies: the pinkish paleness of face and hands, the rich black of the clothes, and the strangely appropriate tarnished golden background. Decreed the Times: "A powerful, penetrating image...