Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brebner: Canadians leave home because salaries are higher in the U.S., because "the canny, cautious conservatism which has so often characterized Canadians, rich and poor alike, [makes life in Canada] discouraging." Young people especially seemed to find that "the inertia of their entrenched elders had drained Canadian life of color, zest, adventure, and the stimulation which comes from free-ranging experimentation in ideas...
...romantic hokum of Show Boat's well-known story-with its dashing gambler, its deserted young wife who troupes to stardom, its pretty mulatto who tries to "pass"-calls up the color of Mississippi River life, of the 1893 World's Fair, of grimy furnished rooms and glittering music halls. It fetches up a lot of gay, happy dancing, much of it with a period touch of cancans and cakewalks. Only toward the end of the show, when the plot runs down, does the Show Boat revival lose its lure...
...oils are less convenient for Litwak: his landlady in Brooklyn hates the smell of turpentine, and refuses to let him paint with the windows shut. Litwak's solution is simply to sketch his compositions on canvas in the winter, and color them in when summer comes and the windows can be left open...
Funk. "With the earphones clamped like horns to the fat, sick face sagging into the small, dumpy body, he is the perfect model for a gargoyle. In color he is light green...
...show offers a good many consolation prizes. Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!, Bloomer Girl) is engaging as the hard little heel, besides dancing her nimble feet off. Mitzi Green (Babes in Arms) plays the part and catches the color of a Texas Guinan. There is a wonderful takeoff of a big Ziegfeldish production number in which showgirls appear as bright-plumaged birds. There is a funny ballad in which a gangster reminisces about his rubbed-out pals. Most of Jerome Robbins' dances are lively and amusing; some of Morton Gould's tunes are witty, if not very tuneful...