Word: dionysian
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...millionaire who likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett), who can span three octaves without turning a hair, and Cuba's dionysian Miguelito Valdes, who suggests a three-power compromise between Cab Galloway, Orson Welles and Rube Bandleader Spike Jones...
Before long the girl-shy Whirlwind, drunk with love, is as friskily unmanageable as a brontosaurus in a bridal suite. (Good scene: his Dionysian rumba with exhausted Miss Russell in her apartment, to ear-cleaving radio music, deep in the night.) Meanwhile the Honest Man (Brian Aherne), who is writing Miss Russell's profile, loafs around with his hat jammed on (to prove he is a journalist), befriends the bemused Whirlwind, sneers at double-dealing Miss Russell, grabs her the instant she betrays a dawning sense of decency...
...that were all there was to the book it would be plenty, though no man could quite judge of what. But for Dionysian William Faulkner the story is, as usual, a mere set of springboards and parallel bars for the display of one of the most dazzling and inchoate talents in contemporary letters. The reader who takes in the show exposes himself to so furious a narcotic cyclone of Poe, Melville, Mark Twain and original Faulkner that the best he can do is to hang on to his hat and wits. As the storm screams past he may discern...
...book makes one sad, for almost all the wines mentioned by the author as ministers to his Dionysian joy were nineteenth century vintages, and have long since fulfilled their noble destiny. But some will derive comfort from the opinion that "Gin. . . is a very excellent, most wholecome, and, at its best, most palatable drink"; others from the realization that the twentieth century has had its good wine years, that Saintsbury learned by experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word...
...Guitrys, Sothern & Marlowe, or Lunt & Fontanne. Full-lipped, slim, fiftyish, grey-haired since she was 18, Miss St. Denis has been dancing for 25 years - five years longer than her husband who is considerably her junior. Ambitious, intelligent, they are less academic than the late Anna Pavlova, less Dionysian than the late Isadora Duncan. Last week's audience, like many another, found them at their best in straight forward pictorial interpretations : Miss St. Denis in the Salome dance of Richard Strauss and an Oriental Dance Balinese by Wells Hively ; Mr. Shawn in dances to four oldtime U. S. songs...