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...Town is also a poem in play form. Thornton Wilder wrote it in the only poetic idiom which Americans always understand-simple U. S. speech in which emotion supercharges the common forms. He wrote it out of the poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...
...arrive at a comprehensive appreciation of his music, it is impossible to take the remark seriously. True, in the symphonies and tone-poems, there are passages of a woodwind complexion, of a curious rough-hewn quality, which have been traditionally seized on as the hall-mark of Sibelius's idiom. But the great moments in his great works are not this "incarnation of the fjords of Finland." The great works breathe a richness and a warmth such as cold water never did or could have, but which ripe heady wine always...
...Gothic villa of that town. They invited the reviewers of thirty college newspapers to serve as an audience because the same hero spends the first three minutes in college and thereby creates what Mr. Zanuck-presumably calls "a college angle." Mr. Zanuck's angle, to use a contemporary idiom, is none too sharp...
...Picture. Mr. Washington Goes to Town opens in jail. Prisoner Wallingford (F. E. Miller) is bandying hoary quips in end-man idiom with Prisoner Schenectady (Manta Moreland). Sample: "Pork chops is the fondest things I is of." Then Wallingford reads in the paper that Schenectady's uncle has died and left him a hotel. So Schenectady falls asleep. The rest of the picture is his riotous dream...
...Lukas Foss attributed that apparent similarity to the folk tunes, declared, with an eye on Broadway and Hollywood: "I want to write in a modern idiom which appeals...