Word: proletarianization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most famous ballet conceived in Soviet Russia had its Manhattan premiere last week. It was The Red Poppy, a stark, fist-shaking proletarian melodrama set to lush, romantic music by Russia's aging Reinhold Glière. It caused almost as much excitement in Manhattan's City Center of Music and Drama as it had in Moscow at its first performance in 1927. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with Alexandra Danilova as the star, gave it an energetic performance. But it was not the same Red Poppy that Muscovites had cheered in the Bolshoi Theater 17 years...
Private Hargrove's particular pals are a slick con man, Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), his bucktoothed, leering sidekick, Private Esty (George Offerman Jr.), and a solemn, proletarian, Private Burk (Bill Phillips). Private Burk tries to explain to Private Hargrove the puzzled sources of his patriotism, but Mulvehill and Esty simply gyp Hargrove right & left. As co-executives of a mythical Date Bureau, they sell him an evening with a girl (Donna Reed) who never heard of their scheme. They also form the Marion Hargrove Beneficial Association to raise funds for his New York furlough. The catch: he signs over...
...affair of a white man and a Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have occurred. It is a somewhat inhibiting theme, costly in that it imprisons literary imaginations that might otherwise be free to write of the rich and varied Southern life that is sufficiently...
Standing Room Only (Paramount) warms over the hectic humors of war-crowded Washington. Junior Executive Lee Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...
...especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire to achieve. A great deal of his highest comedy is deeply rooted in his own past...