Word: oldtimey
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...that summary sounds oldtimey, it should, for it outlines a silent film made in 1923. It failed then, largely because its writer-director did not also star in it, there being no place in the movie for a sweet little tramp. Now A Woman of Paris can be seen for what it is: one of the loveliest expressions of Charles Chaplin's genius a sort of last gift from that troublesome man turned legend...
...knuckle under to the sadistic guards. One day he receives a telegram that his mother has died. She is his last tenuous touch with the outside world, and under the strain, he finally cracks. Sitting on his bunk, Luke, an avowed village atheist, brokenly sings a parody of an oldtimey hymn: "I don't care if it rains or freezes/long as I got my plastic Jesus/sitting on the dashboard...
...takes a trip to the accompaniment of psychedelic clatter and barely audible chatter about blowin' their minds. White Rabbit ("One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small") is an eerie echo of Lewis Carroll's Alice, that mop-haired, pioneering freak-out and her oldtimey, mind-blowing Wonderland. The Airplane likes to blur and disconnect its musical phrases, creating the aural equivalent of double vision...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York discovered that there's nothing like an oldtimey masked ball to attract partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin...
Miss Gulliver Travels gives a number of actors the opportunity of dressing up in oldtimey costumes and smacking their lips over some colored water which is supposed to be bourbon and ale. It relates the adventures of a troupe of mummers who barnstorm the U. S. circa 1811. Big scene occurs when they give Romeo and Juliet in Washington, D. C. before President James Madison. Here the reunited lovers score a triumph not repeated by Miss Gulliver Travels...
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