Word: paced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best things about the screen production are the sets (by Vincent Korda), the costumes (by Cecil Beaton), and the exquisitely muted Technicolor. Most of the casting and acting are good too. The weakest things are the uneven reading of the lines, the lethargic pace, and the final visual essence of the picture...
...chief characteristic of this artificially theatrical approach to the work yesterday was Mr. Goldovsky's evident insistence that everyone do something while singing. All the staging seemed forced. People would pace about the stage, look at the audience and toward the rear of the stage, and whisper in other characters' cars. To keep the action moving, some seenes were played in front of the curtain while sets were changed behind-with cramped action and annoying off-stage noises the result. All the singers were given to exaggerated postures-one felt like shouting, "Don't be so deucedly condescending!" Costumes were...
Figures on the large number of Radcliffe-Harvard marriages have shot holes in the old point of view, and the joint instruction program has pretty well buried the pieces. The CRIMSON's new policy keeps pace with the times...
...movies. David Farrar and Flora Robson play with skill and vitality, while Jean Simmons, the Estella of "Great Expectations," is magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of, with some splendid photographic effects, and the only serious fault to be found is that the pace is sometimes too slow. It is a great pity that a picture so excellent in execution and so religious in theme should be chopped up by the censors...
...People," said the tall, amiable Chinese in his Manhattan apartment last week, "are always progressing." In 67 years, China's Feng Yu-hsiang (known to the West as the "Christian General") has progressed at a fabulous pace. These days, a good many Americans who call themselves liberals hail him as a great Chinese democrat...