Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very few seemed shocked, or even particularly surprised, by the President's plea for aid to Greece and Turkey (see The Presidency). But the national mood was one of resignation and apathy rather than enthusiasm. Muttered a Chicago commuter: "More sand down the rat hole." Said an ex-soldier, now a student at the University of Oklahoma: "Well, I told my wife to dust off my uniform...
Brigadoon has a remote, wistful, storybook air. Not the least storybook part of it, naturally, is a romance between one of the Americans and a Brigadoon lass. (The other American just has a comic Lowland fling with a friendly baggage.) But Brigadoon mainly seeks to sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental...
...while it is evoking mood, Brigadoon does not make the mistake of ignoring movement. The show is almost more danced than acted; and Agnes de Mille's folk dances and reels and sword dances have spirit and style. The whole show, indeed-with its attractively youthful cast, its pretty sets and handsome costumes- has been carefully woven together. A good deal of Broadway's savvy lurks behind Brigadoon's charm...
...still another story, "The Secret," by Miss Ann Allison, everything is there but that final coherence which makes a story come together. It is written well, and with a feeling for character and mood, but it seems to have Implications. Nothing is wrong with Implications, except when it isn't clear what they imply. This adolescent profundity produces the most irritating literature known to man, and "Radditudes" should put up a special mechanism to keep it out. It is a constant threat in the March issue. Especially in the poetry...
Parlor Story (by William McCleery; produced by Paul Streger) might have made a very pleasant comedy had it kepi to the mood of the title. Playwright McCleery has a feeling for people (particularly young people) and a knack for natural and amusing dialogue. But he has cluttered his parlor with ideological furniture and chained his characters to a large hunk of plot...