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...prettily dressed and decorated. Sylvia Sidney, as the target for tonight, and John Hodiak, as the maniac, play it as if they 1) wished they were elsewhere, but 2) felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
Nonetheless, O'Neill is one of the finest theatrical craftsmen of his day, and Electra has a gnashing vitality. The cinemadaption is, as Playwright O'Neill himself concedes, "magnificent." The rough edges of the incestuous theme have been ground smooth in the dialogue without losing a jot of theatrical shock. The Grecian mood, though it echoes rather tinnily through the New England characters, reverberates grandly on the super-loud sound track, in what O'Neill calls the "sumptuous simplicity" of the Mannon mansion, in the classic drape of the costumes, in the still, pure lighting...
...almost impossible to have a watch repaired in New Delhi now; the watch craftsmen were Moslems. So were the tailors and the barbers, the butchers, and the cooks, the waiters and bearers, the rug dealers, and the drivers of tongas and taxicabs...
...little shipyards that line the coast of Nova Scotia, builders are busier than they have been since the days of wooden ships and iron men. Now, as 70 years ago, saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
...melodies (notable exception: The Last Time I Saw Paris, which Oscar first wrote as a poem, Jerome Kern later put to music). This system of creation puts the pinch on the lyricist; and it is in the pinches that Oscar has earned the awe of his fellow craftsmen, who refer to him as "The Master." Oscar now writes his words first and lets Rodgers weave a song...