Word: motifs
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...lets his nose get in the way of his love affairs. An iconoclast, embattled against a pedantic society, he sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword, and a magnificent soul to convince the right woman. This is not sound, inspired drama, nor is Rostand to be rated as a major dramatic poet. But the theatre thrives...
Chappie Arnold, a perennial standby of university house affairs, will provide the music, and a Yuletide motif has been announced by the decorations department. An anonymous motion to give one of the proctors a pillow and a Santa Claus outfit, however, was unanimously voted down...
...first act, though long, was enjoyable, highlighted by Miss MacWatters' capable singing of the "Laughing Waltz," a difficult but novel arrangement of the Die Fledermaus motif. A lyric, "Who Knows," was the only outstanding original song and is destined most likely to fall into the clutches of the radio. The second act, getting off to a boring start and failing to attain the standards set by the first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus...
...recent trips, Tom and I were stabled together. . . . Not more than five minutes after he crept aboard his cot, Mr. Durrance began his performance. He started with the classical buzz-saw motif and ran through other conventional numbers...
...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...