Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THEATER, with the new revue Small Wonder (see THEATER) suggests that democracy should be sold to Europe as soap is peddled to the U.S. Sample radio commercials read by Comedian Tom Ewell: "Hello Europe-this is America. Ladies, does your government look different lately? Are your borders in disorder? Well, join the swing to Democracy. And remember,Victor Kravchenko has switched to Democracy because Democracy is milder ... Try the brand of government Rita Hayworth uses! And then they'll say about you . . . she's lovely, she's engaging, she votes...
...boom in television strikes ARCHITECTURAL FORUM as a very mixed blessing. Blinking nervously, the current FORUM takes a quick, appalled look at TV's pres, ent and foreseeable future. Sample findings...
What is the most essential duality in an artist? Says Matisse: "Hard work." That sounded as if Matisse slaved over his paintings, and he does, though they never show it. The best of them look as if they had taken him a happy half-hour. In the film, Matisse gives away the secret of that effect, letting the camera peer over his shoulder while he draws his grandson's portrait again & again and then paints a bit from a girl model. The secret: speed of execution (which need not imply hasty conception...
...Near Easterners wondered where the U.S. would ,ever find his like. For 35 years, Bayard Dodge had impartially dispensed advice, criticism and friendship to all creeds and factions, but kept his tropical suits unsullied by political controversy. Last week a troubled Near East (see INTERNATIONAL) got its first look at Dodge's successor...
Here & there, the movie has flashes of dramatic vitality and even of authenticity. Samples: the whole look and feel of Cambridge and Harvard, a generation ago; Horace charming a prospective father-in-law and a gaggle of stockbrokers; Mr. Greenstreet breathily declaring his passion for his low-necked, uninterested wife. But the long-suffering friend, inadvertently no doubt, finally becomes absurd and faintly contemptible. It all adds up to a strained, silly show...