Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...master clown stops trying to be pathetic and reverts to his inimitable proper stuff. The 63-year-old comedian, who wrote the script (and the music) and directed the movie, plays an aging, down-at-heel music-hall performer who saves a beautiful young ballet dancer (Claire Bloom) from suicide in World War I London. As she rises to success with his help, he sinks to the bottom. At the fadeout, the white-haired clown dies in the wings of a theater while the dancer he has befriended whirls onstage in "the glamour of limelight from which age must pass...
...wintry artificiality, a few of the individual performances sometimes have a springtime sweetness. In Claire Bloom,* Chaplin has found one of his loveliest leading ladies and an actress of lyric grace. Chaplin's own acting now & again glimmers with the poignancy of his internationally beloved little tramp. And in one magnificent music-hall scene, in which Chaplin plays a left-handed violinist and stony-faced Buster Keaton an impossibly nearsighted pianist, the two greatest comedians of the silent screen make Limelight glow with a sure sense of pantomime-timing, as crisply clean and uncluttered a masterpiece of comic craft...
...person; each, therefore, is written in a different style. The attempt sounds like a stunt or a forlorn hope; the extraordinary thing is that it was successful. Herself Surprised is Sara Monday, her book. Sara is Every woman (as much as or more than James Joyce's Molly Bloom) but very much herself as well: a maddeningly complaisant, maddeningly wise, maddeningly female creature. The second volume is the record of Tom Wilcher, one of Sara's employers and lovers, an uncomfortable, comfortably off lawyer with a lust for life and an itch for salvation. The last word...
They are: David King Sirota--Grays 31, Edward S. Stotler Jr.--Grays 1, Bruce G. Martin--Hollis 10, Arthur D. Bloom--Hollis 26, Newell B. Mack--Holworthy 11, Kenneth G. Swan--Holworthy 18, Christopher Del Sesto--Matthews 35, George W. Smith, Jr.--Matthews 74, Robert V. Goode--Matthews 28, John Dreyfuss--Mathews...
...Drapers moved to London, where Victorianism was deeply buried under the lush Edwardian bloom. Muriel set about creating a salon to rival Mabel Dodge's villa in Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn...