Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leneman paints with emotional haste and seldom spends more than a day on one picture. "My method is practical," he says. "My paintings play and sing and dance." Critics were not inclined to go that far, but they did generally agree that the paintings have a creamy, baroque sweetness all their own. Even if it adds up to little more than a sticky hobby, Leneman's art works wonders with a method otherwise usually used to keep kids busy on rainy afternoons...
Life with Father (Warner) has been treated by Hollywood with the care and respect that is due the biggest hit in the history of the stage. Warner Bros, bought the play for $500,000 down plus a sizable percentage of the gross receipts. In the filming, Father was a major effort in Technicolor fidelity to an original. Every scene added to the cinema version was developed from the original sketches of Clarence Day, and the picture was made under the supervision of Playwright Howard Lindsay and of Mr. Day's widow...
Father was put on film when the play was already an enormous success. It is filmed like a success; it has the glitter, the good humor and the rather beefy adroitness of a success. The chances are a hundred to one that it will be a success...
...lush young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...
...world." His chapters on New Haven in the early 1900s explore the functions of the college, where, by his estimate, little education was given or gained, and the plight of the faculty which "never, so far as we know, got drunk, swore, fornicated, swindled, never did anything except lie, play politics and be mean...