Word: gay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ariel of Jan Farrand is always light, and gay, as "it" should be. Miss Farrand is wise and nimble, and keeps within her character except one time when she briefly impersonated the goddess Ceres. Her Ariel is as pleasant as her zephyr-like voice. Ferdinand and Miranda, the ideal lovers, are ideally cast and suitably played by Miles Morgan and Naomi Raphaelson. Miss Raphaelson is particularly fetching, though her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her own weak projection. The Gonzale of Donald Stevens was well done...
Author Norman's story is a tale of Greenwich Village innocence, before Stalinism and Sartre, when, by his account, the villains were no worse than money-making poetasters, when there was lively talk in gay Bohemian cafés, and when a hero could stalk wrathfully from a meeting of the Poetry Association...
...movie is hampered by occasional Hollywood cliches. There is the gangster type: the sinister leer over the villain's left shoulder and the final gun battle with the police surrounding Garfield and his girl; and the gay ending type: bells tolling and people dancing in the streets...
...Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will. "Yee-da-paw, yee-da-paw" (we laugh, we laugh), they cried through chattering teeth every time the chilling water hit them...
Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...