Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balcony of Juliet is a witness-box on which most good actresses have at one time stood for final appraisal. In her trial, Miss LeGallienne ran a conscientious gamut of flippancy, catlike nervousness, passion, despair. Donald Cameron's Romeo was comely but lethargic...
Genuine Chekhovians acquire an appetite for an atmosphere of twilit melancholy through which bewildered stoics make their weary way, ceaselessly confronted with frustration and despair. Nobody gets what he wants in Uncle Vanya. Michael Astrov, acted by Osgood Perkins (late editor of the Chicago Herald & Examiner in The Front Page), distinctly wants Lillian Gish, the second wife of an aged, selfish pedagog. With admirable restraint, her husband's brother-in-law, "Uncle Vanya" (Walter Connolly), also pursues Miss Gish as she floats about the stage attired in the costume of a pastel Gibson Girl. And although both Miss Gish...
...Hope Ames, managed to master its extraordinary moods with the customary skill of Guild performers. The only completely successful detail of Hotel Universe is the setting, by Lee Simonson, of a terrace touched by the light of a July evening on the Mediterranean, a pavilion for illusion and despair...
...amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other-all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot: the scene darker, the shelling...
...amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other?all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen?a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot: the scene darker, the shelling outside...