Word: motif
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...goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...
...oldtime Musical Director A. Edward Sutherland conducted the actors through the story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...
...ambitious program of six plays running through the fall, the Theatre of the Fifteen is bringing to Boston "phases of the American scene" from Broadway jazz alligators to Hollywood glamour-boys. The No. 1 motif, which is Martha Pittenger's "A Man From The Band," concentrates on the Eastern seaboard, and, in particular, on a toney New York apartment where American-Rich-Girl-Number-Four marries a piano player and tries to reconcile the age-old differences between their opposing ways of life...
...made in the cheers. The new "skyrocket" cheer has done little but fizzle to this date. The "echo" is a disastrous division of a cheering section which needs concentration of is lung-power above all else. In contrast to these is the effectiveness if the musical cheer--the trumpet motif followed by a "fight!" --which was copied from New Hampshire. A few instructive evening with the New Hampshire co-ed yell leaders might be an excellent and readily-accepted requirement for the Crimson leaders...
...distorted and tortured to fit the varying moods of the plot. A score like this can never represent any very important emotional contribution on the part of a composer; at best it is a facile hashing-up of some admittedly marvelous themes. Other Hollywood composers experimented with the leit-motif system, but this failed because it gave rise to some very absurd effects, such as that of a chase in which the music switched back from the pursued to the pursuer with every move of the camera. The leit-motif was abused, rather than used by composers for greater unity...