Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hepburn are tremendously sincere. Each maintains the high standard of emotional continuity demanded by the plot to a finish which though unfortunately crude in form in none the less powerful. Because it deals with a type of character usually avoided by the movies and because the author has attempted realism instead of melodramas, "Christopher Strong" may not provoke the popularity of a more blatant production. Katharine Hepburn, nevertheless, remains a starting and brilliant figure. With the aid of Colin Clive she succeeds in making "Christopher Strong" a fine piece of work...
...than the first, but it should not be too soft to expect that good breeding would rise soberly to the occasion. But even if such an introduction might increase the means of assistance at the college's disposal, the duty to meet the problem of admissions with a cautious realism need not be obscured...
Hell Below (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of moods in this picture -engine room realism and chivalric romance-could not be a happy one in any medium. It could scarcely be attempted in anything but cinema, which can be immensely graphic and must usually be sentimental. The narrative of Hell Below concerns a young submarine lieutenant (Robert Montgomery) who falls in love with a woman (Madge Evans) whose husband has been unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes...
...last two chapters. "Adventures" and "Peace," and find the inspiring culmination of a whole new point of view which one of the truly great thinkers of our time has to offer. The present age of disillusion is the inevitable outcome of an orgy of so called "scientific" realism. Professor White head shows how narrow and shortsighted is this interpretation of the nature of things; he demonstrates how only a colossal blindness could load one to tenore the fact that Civilization is essentially a humanly-created achievement of harmony amidst the brute Force of Nature; he tells the amazing story...
...monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller was as usual selling .5% beer and chocolate milk shakes, while students clamored for 3.2% beer as soon as possible. President Fred H. Clausen of the University Board...