Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reproductions, over which many a U. S. publisher is cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality could be bought in U. S. bookstores for under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya's series of 85 etchings with a foreword by the late Elie Faure. Others were big books of reproductions of Titian, Cézanne, van Gogh, the Impressionists, Rembrandt...
Frank Churchill, Lee Harling, and Paul Smith have written music exactly suitable to the theme that has required three years of labor to produce. Perhaps what makes this a masterpiece of cinema entertainment, in addition to the color medium and settings, is the actual creation of seven individual characters, all of them dwarfs made with pen and ink, yet all tremendously human...
...proposal that we plunge more deeply into the world armament race is a horse of another color. The President is right that tension in the world is high and that we must "think of our national security." But those arguments are losing their force through much repetition. They are always heard whenever armament increase is wanted; they are as inevitable as scare heads on the country's yellow journals. The fact is that we are already spending a billion dollars-a record peace-time high-on armament. Furious rearming on the part of Germany, Japan, and Italy has only begun...
...Local Color...
...drama puts its audiences through a workout. For him who is willing to do his part, filling in the lives of the chief characters and standing in their shoes, there is infinite pleasure. Color the piquancy of Frances Farmer, the skillful directorial use of the melodramatic cloak, the haunting refrain of the title song, and the character performances of Oscar Homolka and Barry Fitzgerald play innumerable variations on the Central theme. No matter how low a man may descend, while there is grace in his soul he need not be living in vain...