Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darkness and Day is modeled pretty much on the same plan as every other Compton-Burnett novel (this is her twelfth). Incest, illegitimacy and the pangs of growing old are merely the convenient props for her main interest: what a variegated cast of characters have to say about life & death...
One of his few cheerful pictures, Henry does. It also shows Koerner's growing independence of involved, story-telling props. The children's airplane swing on which the figure poses might be taken to symbolize the young showoff side of any artist's make-up as well...
Cotton Congressmen disagreed. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank cried that the order would "never work" and was the real start towards controlling other farm products, such as livestock, wheat and wool. He threatened to lead a move to knock the props out from under the whole price...
Pagliacci, the little play-within-a-play tragedy of strolling players, was a victim of cuteness, somewhat redeemed by the singing. Staff Director Max Leavitt, onetime director of Greenwich Village's informal little Lemonade Opera (TIME, June 20, 1949), tried some of his favorite tricks from the old days...
The movie is as corny, and often just as pleasantly mellow, as a fond recollection of barefoot boyhood-which is what it is. The period and locale come alive in fine sets and props; Actor Hernandez and Dean Stockwell (as the parson's ward) give unusually good performances; the...