Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burning Glass (by Charles Morgan) is one more melodrama in which a scientist discovers a new source of power -this time by harnessing the heat of the sun. Being the work of Charles Morgan, it is meant as far more-though at times it comes off as far less-than a mere thriller. The author of The Fountain is a stylishly earnest writer who, while posing philosophic debates over when the new weapon should be used, offers cultivated characters who spout Shakespeare and Keats and dress regularly for destruction...
...ones, Christopher will surrender his formula only in time of war or dire necessity. Meanwhile Christopher's chief assistant-who is in love with Christopher's wife-talks too much to a white-tied foreign gentleman, and Christopher is kidnaped. He soon returns, unharmed, perhaps because Playwright Morgan prefers the pursuit of ideas to a mere manhunt; the only remaining action is that the assistant, for fear of blabbing again, nobly swallows poison...
...moral problem of The Burning Glass is genuine, and Playwright Morgan's characters say some pertinent things. But there is no real sense of moral passion, nor effect of intellectual light. There is rather an unconscionable amount of talk that sounds much more like writing, and of love-making that seems written by rote. Despite a lively and accomplished performance by Cedric Hardwicke as the Prime Minister and about 15 minutes of good, vulgar, second-act suspense, The Burning Glass is a high-toned bore...
...resemblance to Garland is no accident. Marti Stevens has been collecting Garland records for a long time, and comparing them with records of the Prohibition Era's Helen Morgan, one of Marti's earliest collecting enthusiasms. She decided that her two favorites had the same vocal knack: "A kind of heartbreak, over-the-rainbow. it's-got-to-happen-tomorrow quality. It kills people. It always kills me." She began to try for the same thing in her own singing...
...Movie Magnate Nicholas M. Schenck. She never got over the procession of show-business stars who came visiting at the Schenck household when Marti was in pigtails. "I just sat in a corner and watched those wonderful people do their tricks." In her teens, she started to collect Helen Morgan records...