Word: crescendos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarly knowledge of the period under his pen. But none can condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels westward, eastward, southward, and finally Westward. Only by a genial perusal of dark pages and the vagaries of his own adventure in America could the author have found the American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American...
...quite good. But from this point on Playwright Galsworthy runs into third-act trouble. Unable to attain the brilliant crescendo of a Grand Hotel, Playwright Galsworthy gets all his characters to the roof of the hostelry-where they again show how civilized folk face a crisis-and finally permits all save the foolish incendiarist to be rescued by belated pompiers...
Divorce is threatened, but it seems that the show must go on, and our heroine resigns herself to a crescendo of debauchery, involving no end of Hispanos, black tights, snap-shots of the Rivierra, and scenes which must be familiar to every movie goer. As Miss Chatterton lights her twenty-fourth cigarette, by actual count, in a pleasant rural district with a cow, a goat, a horse (property of Paramount Picture Corporation), in strides Paul Lukas, with his easel under one arm. Mutual infatuation. Complications, of a very simple nature...
...therefore receive general acceptance in the land where the dawn is signalled Galli-Curci-like with an explosion of ringing notes, amid a quick fire of echoes, the world awakes with a bang; and though abrupt and startling the onset kooka rushes exultingly into a rifle shot pealing crescendo, terminating in high pitched demoniacal mockerj'. S. E. BUTLER...
...swift chain of circumstance compels Mr. Atwill to assume the role of defendant. During his trial, which is accompanied by some adroit British sarcasm from the bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that Mr. Atwill still has three scenes left in which to prove himself innocent. Kay Strozzi (real name Strotz, sister of President Sidney Strotz...