Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...content of a work of art to be a valid basis for criticizing it. There are several schools of theory ensconced in this opinion; one of them centers in Moscow. I do not share this opinion. As long as a work of art is not conscious propaganda, its criticism must be amoral. The criterion should be: is this a sensitive and powerful expression of the artist's feeling? Right, wrong, social value, middle-class morality etc. should never enter into artistic criticism. Granted, artists are deeply concerned with moral issues: their concern should not concern us expect insofar...
...been set up to now, they will need a more efficient and more perservering management to encourage other groups to cooperate with them in getting good music heard. There is and will be a market for music around here and talent to create and perform it, but the two must be brought together more enthusiastically...
These two remarks, I think, sum up the film very nicely. Fred Astaire said a couple of years ago that he was through with pictures; his return to the screen with his old sparring partner Ginger Rogers is an unexpected treat. Astaire must have secretly kept in training because in his new film he doesn't look the least bit old or bored or rusty. If anything, the vacation has done him good...
Silent Partner. In Boston, Ventriloquist James Johnson, on trial for deserting his wife, was told by the judge: "You must choose between your wife and the dummy"; promptly chose the dummy...
Finally the board agreed to let the public look at the result, with two conditions: 1) a patriotic foreword must explain that the movie depicts conditions in the U.S., not Britain; 2) children under 16 must be barred from the audience. (Normally, films classified for adults may be seen by children if accompanied by grown...