Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meadows, in the dream, answers...
...austere than anything Fry has written; an inquiry into-and seemingly away from-spiritual desolation. But it lacks the strong simple current, the climactic movement, of religious and dramatic emotion alike. It has none of the widening allegoric vision of a Langland or a Bunyan. For one thing, each dream is really a self-enclosed characterization, so that the play has no organic development. By putting Adams' affirmative dream last, Fry allows it to point his moral, but not in dramatic terms: it is either Adams talking to himself, or Fry talking to the audience...
Vaughn Flannery did more than dream about it. Ten years ago, at 43, he threw up his job as art director (and partner) of Manhattan's booming Young & Rubicam, and hit out for the Maryland horse country. Scoffing friends predicted that he would soon be back at the old Manhattan treadmill. He was back last week, but not on a treadmill: a big 57th Street gallery was showing 31 of Vaughn Flannery's coolly colored paintings of horses and racing scenes, and mighty nice they were...
...American in Paris" is a highly imaginative film. The camera wanders selectively through an illusory Paris, from the noisy streets of the Left Bank to the somber steps by the banks of the Seine. It captures the spirit of a Parisian fairyland, making it a fit background for the dream sequences which form the best part of the film. These sequences are a necessary mechanism in a film which must make use of the varied talents of Gene Kelly, George's Guitar, and Oscar Levant, and still keep the plot from being too contrived. At one point Levant dozes...
Gene Kelly and Miss Carrion appear together near the end of the picture in a prolonged ballet which certainly equals any of the old Rogers-Aster numbers. In this second dream sequence, Kelly, who also did the film's choreography, dances through the streets of Paris into a Toulouse-Latter painting which slowly comes to life; an extraordinarily effective piece of photography. Kelly and Miss Caron are joined by the debonair Georges Guetary, who fits somewhere into the love quadrangle, and helps add an authentic Parisian touch to the proceedings...