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...chief trouble, was with the audience, which was not familiar enough with the Shakespearean idiom and manner to group quickly the situation and their implications. For this very reason, the Dramatic club should prove a missionary to those that sit in darkness, and prove the value of small reading-clubs like the Stratford club and the Old Shakespeare Club be of Cambridge, whose delight, in "Much Ado," qun play, was notably above the response, even of those speculator who plumed themselves on having seen this or that star and a priori judged the amateurs by that unfair standard. Yours very...
...Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
Here is a departure from the accepted cinema idiom. People go to the movies today to relax in the cushion of familiarity, the familiarity of beautiful people in standard patterns. The cult of film actors, it appears, lagoon the lapse of the religion of perfection: yet it lapses, happily, in "The Enchanted Cottage...
...pallid, thin fellow of 29. Pavlov sometimes translates for Stalin. But he is Molotov's man, accompanies him everywhere. At Yalta his penetrating voice pleased President Roosevelt because it was so easily heard. Pavlov speaks English with a decided British accent, but has an accurate ear for the idiom and nuances of American speech...
...desert" of the afterworld. Job, his wife, God and the Devil are the actors, and the theme is the place of reason (or lack of it) in man's lot under God's hand. Says God (who, like his servant, is pure New Englander in sense and idiom): I've had you on my mind a thousand