Word: leites
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...Hollywood has tried to doctor it with Merle Oberon's legs and has left the religion leit-motive out of the picture by substituting something that is not religion as much as prudishness. The crusader of the book becomes the comic of the picture, and his effect on his land-lady is ridiculous, and not the terrible and gradual thing it was in the book...
...distorted and tortured to fit the varying moods of the plot. A score like this can never represent any very important emotional contribution on the part of a composer; at best it is a facile hashing-up of some admittedly marvelous themes. Other Hollywood composers experimented with the leit-motif system, but this failed because it gave rise to some very absurd effects, such as that of a chase in which the music switched back from the pursued to the pursuer with every move of the camera. The leit-motif was abused, rather than used by composers for greater unity...
...throat. The tale Librettist Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes are labeled Leit Motif, Etudes, Pastoral, Impromptu, Sonata...
...adapt itself to masterly treatment. In "Blonde Venus" this theme is ruined by lurid, florid, tabloid handing which carries the mother from the arms of her Husband, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, and with the leit motif of "a little child shall lead them," back to the arms of her husband. The whole amounts to exactly nothing as an intelligent or entertaining treatment of the problem...
Sitting Bull and one hundred and fifty of his band leit Fort Randall last Saturday for Fort Yates, where they propose to engage in farming...