Word: milieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Hollywood, where he supervised the filming of his play, "The House of Connolly" as the movie "Carolina", will deal informally with some of the problems of the dramatist who works with material unusual to the stage. He covers a wide range of subject matter, from his own special milieu, the folk-play of South Carolina to the flashier contributions of the silver screen...
...importance of all this cannot be overemphasized. America has been an expanding, jubilant, barbarically confident country, with a whole untouched continent to exploit. In this milieu the dominant fact was economic growth and amassing of wealth. Naturally this became the American ideal, most blatantly expressed by the American Magazine (properly named, indeed.) The movies early responded to this and provided the delectable pleasures of Park Avenue, the European resorts, and all that goes with them under a rosy hue. It was all represented as a glorious Paradise right here on earth...
...found, nor yet the cinematic evidences of Fourth Estateliness which earmark the Boston American as Hearst's. In the crumbly, musty, sooty, comfortable rookery, of the Transcript there is something that reminds the Vagabond at once of Mark Twain, of Horace Greeley, and of Beacon Street. Such a milieu creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production of humorous human-interest stories for every front page; there is an influence extending even from Washington Street to Cambridge which makes the headline "Many Years a Baker in West Roxbury" read like the proper introduction to an obituary; the dry, static condition...
...bludgeons the great truths of the class war into the consciousness of the audience; the suffering Turkmen in Turkestan are rescued from their Capitalistic overlord by five young Russian engineers. With this simple salvation of the proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees and lettuce which laps Aman...
...Husband's Holiday" is a re-simmering of the free-soul theme in a middle-class milieu. Living in sin has seldom been more pedestrian. Miss Vivienne Osborne permits her husband, Mr. Clive Brook, to conduct his extra-martial affair with Miss Juliette Compton, knowing that he'll come home just as surely as Little Bo-Peep. There is little for the erring husband to choose between the two women, and Mr, Brook takes no great pleasure in either. Neither does the Playgoer. Best scene: Mr. Brook playing with the children's toy tracks...