Word: goer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This showing of the French film "Portrait of a Woman" based on a screen play by Jacques Feyder affords little satisfaction to the low intellect movie-goer. A quick disposal of plot by Mr. Feyder and the four superb characterizations of a woman by the actress Francoise Rosay provide a drama which maintains interest throughout...
...barrier to theological unity is even less surmountable. An agnostic would say that, just as there are different sizes in clothing, it seems necessary to have many different theological in order to approximate the various specifications of different human souls. From the point of view of a church goer of more rigid beliefs the divergency is accounted for by the fact that God has divided humanity into saints and sinners...
...most unfortunate side of the London picture is probably the most sterile programming imagination in Europe. Fed on nothing but repeated doses of Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Tehaikovsky, and Mozart, the English concert goer begins after a month or so to be visited by an uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long...
...Racine that the play loses its dash. The death of Christian, the puppet lover, and the end of Cyrano himself in a nunnery are on the edge of ennui. Written at a time when audiences liked their melodrama lush and their tears wet, these heroics leave the modern theatre-goer cold...
Although almost light-hearted by comparison with Andreyev's other works, "He Who Gets Slapped" is a sombre and moody play; as is often true of tragedy, it is reflective and can easily be condemned for dragging by a theatre goer searching after bright lights and gaiety...