Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Score. The music never interprets the fantasy, but plays with it, mocks it-rolls it ahead like a ball, follows after on subtle feet. The work is, in pattern, like those opera ballets of the 18th Century. Everything is a dance ; the chair-song a minuet; the fire-talk a gigue; dragon flies weave to the slow air of a waltz; the teapot chortles in a foxtrot. It is music that smiles over its shoulder, that caresses only with the tips of its fingers, and laughs at itself in its own mirrors...
...tellectual carelessness. To relegate the literary quality in drama to the limbo of the old fashioned is to countenance the easy tools of the theatre in place of the more difficult and exacting technique of illusionism. If "The Moon is a Gong" is of the same pattern as "Processional", with characters reduced to readily comprehensible types, conducting their impossible business to the strains of a the less jazz band, we may rest assured that the play chosen by the Dramatic Club is a slip shed evasion of the method which its author confesses himself incompetent to handle...
...Other Conde Nast publications: Vogue, House and Garden, Royal, Children's Vogue, Vogue Pattern Book...
...that this is their kind of book. It is true that Mr. Maugham's material has served many a dingy charlatan; true also that his style is undistinguished. But he has a rare grace: humility. He wants to tell a good story, but he does not distort the pattern thrt life imposes upon even the most shoddy events. He writes sensationism with an air of having his manner dictated absolutely by his material. His story is as compact as a surgical dressing...
...period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times of bad Eliphalet. His novel is too neat in pattern, too nervous in action, to find a place in the three-masted, damn-your-eyes tradition of sea-fiction which Captain Marryat, Cooper, Melville and, later, R. L. Stevenson adorned; but it affects, with latter-day sprightliness, the manner of that tradition. It is meritorious for being a good story...