Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Hamilton Fish's strictures on the New Deal seem to have overtaxed his native stock of invective and sent him quarrying in the works of our early masters of vituperation. His recent characterization of the WPA ". . . Like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks" (TIME, July 18), rather ineptly retains the stench but loses the shine of the original simile which eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke applied to Edward Livingston over a century ago: "Fellow-citizens, he is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight...
...profane, seldom bitter, Harry Hop kins becomes aroused when WPA is at tacked. One of its loudest critics lately has been Representative Hamilton Fish of New York who last month said of WPA that "the whole rotten mess stinks to high heaven and, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks...
...Fine Arts is still showing "The Moonlight Sonata," an ocacsional en- picture built about the magnificent playing of Paderwski. That this is more of a recital than a movie is a point in its favor...
...Moonlight Sonata," now at the Fine Arts, rests securely in the able hands of Ignace Jan Paderewski. The picture, a Pall Mall Production, makes little pretense at being anything but a means of presenting an action close-up of the world's greatest living pianist. At this it succeeds fairly well, though one would like to see more of Paderewski and less of the rest of the picture. Particularly interesting are close-ups of the pianist's hands, as he plays his Minuet in G, and selections from Lizst, Chopin, and Beethoven. The exquisite tone of Paderewski's music survives...
...plot is strictly utilitarian. On a Swedish country estate, where he is stranded when his plane crashes, Paderewski unites two estranged lovers by the "miracle" of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. Barbara Greene, Marie Tempest, and Charles Farrell do very well in their distinctly subsidiary parts. The picture is well worth the time for anyone at all interested in music...