Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides summarizing hundreds of plays and spotting hundreds of players and playwrights, the book touches such stray topics as theatrical cemeteries, the 36 Dramatic Situations, explains a mass of technical terms and theatre lingo. Experts have written its longer articles: Raymond Massey on Acting, John Mason Brown on Criticism, Lucius Beebe on First Nights, William Fields on Press Agents, Aline Bernstein on Costumes, Arthur Richman on Playwrighting...
...questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want...
...almost four hours the drama keeps audiences on the edge of their seats with few letdowns. There are unforgettable climaxes: 1) Scarlett shooting the Yankee "deserter" ("deserter" is a concession to Northern protest: in the book he is one of Sherman's raiders) ; 2) the scene of mass desolation as the quietly weeping people of Atlanta read the casualty lists after Gettysburg. Audiences are jerked out of their seats when the mood of defeat is smashed triumphantly as a band bursts into Dixie. By great cinema craft, it is the first time the whole of Dixie is heard...
...Sargent keeps himself informed by prodigious reading: 300 books a year, 150 periodicals, twelve confidential news letters. The attic of his ancient white farmhouse in Brookline, Mass, is packed with ten tons of reading matter, his garage with 20 tons more. He goes to his Boston office only three afternoons a week, works constantly at home. He seldom answers the telephone, sometimes lets it ring for hours. He keeps two secretaries busy clipping, summarizing and filing everything suspected of being propaganda...
...table and partakes of the great Christmas wafer, symbol of brotherly love and forgiveness. Another kolenda, Bracia, Patrzcie Jeno (Brothers, Look Ahead), asks a blessing on this rite (and on a plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take to the streets, rollicking the happy My tez Pastuszkowie (We Also Shepherds...