Word: mood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman was in a holiday mood from the moment he stepped out of the presidential DC-6 Independence at Boca Chica airport near Key West. He paused on the loading ramp, grinned and held his broad-brimmed tan hat high for the photographers. Then, coming down, he shook hands with white-uniformed Captain Cecil C. Adell, commander of the naval base to which he was bound, and demanded...
Tenderness & Gloom. In Stuempfig's case, romantic art seemed to mean painting that sacrificed everything else to mood. His The Old Man, one of the hits of the exhibition, showed both the strength and weakness of Stuempfig's approach...
Both Reginald Bunthrone and Archibaid Grosvenor, the Fleshy and the Idyllic Poets, played by Bradley M. Walls and Richard M. Murphy fitted about the stage with true aestheticism. Walls' face was a delight to behold as it changed to meet the mood. But credit for the best single performance from a list of many excellent ones must go to Elizabeth Spencer, who was suitably padded with pillows to play Lady Jane. Her aria in the beginning of the second act-done with a bass fiddle-brought down the house...
...Roller Derby is good entertainment. It can be fairly exciting and if you pick a night when the competitors happen to be in a particularly surly mood, I suppose it could be downright dangerous. The Roller Derby appears to have more staying power than another Seltzer concoction, the Marathon Dance, and is no doubt worthwhile observing--mainly for chuckles...
...only thing wrong with this film is an occasional lapse in photography. Some of the scenes are overexposed creating a "washed out" effect. This failing is rare, however, and the rest of the photography is excellent in creating mood for the central action...