Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quantity of untutored, incompetent, fourth-rate composers, it is even richer. Because the public needs time to appreciate first-rate music and because even competent listeners cannot always, at first hearing, tell a crackpot musician from a genius, the work of contemporary highbrow composers is unpopular. The public prefers familiar music of guaranteed workmanship...
...justice to Producer Wanger, who at least had the nerve to approach an explosive theme. Blockade is no sensational polemic. U. S. cinemaddicts who are familiar with the history of Spain's Civil War may trace a similarity between certain incidents in the picture and the invasion of the Basque provinces, the arrival of the food ship Seven Seas Spray in Bilbao, and the air raids on Madrid and Barcelona. On the vast majority of U. S. cinemaddicts these verisimilitudes may well be lost, and Blockade will stand on its meagre merits as one more incident in the career...
From sessions of the nine undergraduate officers and 12 members of the Graduate Committee come pans for a new type of entertainment, "similar to a Fred Waring stage presentation." The emphasis will fall on original arrangements of Harvard songs and familiar semi-classical music for the Vocal Club, some to be sung with the God Coast Orchestra division. Opportunity awaits several good soloists...
BERLIOZ: THE DAMNATION OF FAUST, ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Berlioz' flickering and diaphanous orchestral effects brilliantly played. The excerpts are the familiar Minuet of the Will o' the Wisps, Dance of the Sylphs, Hungarian March...
Olivia De Havilland couldn't be more ravishing and, cast to type, her only convincing scenes are d'Amour. The villainous villain, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, is the able Basil Rathbone. The supporting cast, including the familiar Little John and Friar Tuck, are true to their storybook types, and everybody has a wonderful time...