Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Los Angeles police force. Jessie Perry acts Mrs. Hoover. They have nothing to do with the plot. They simply sit in a box at a Washington ball. In the story, laid in Washington apparently during the Harding era, wise Washingtonians may recognize a certain amount of historical realism: A publisher installs his mistress as the society editor of his newspaper...
...regular Republican Senators-electon their campaign expenditures; 2) recall legislation to modernize three battleships which was later passed a second time over their pacifist protests; 3) order investigation, into the disproportionate prices of flour, bread and sugar. The Insurgents' frank desire for an extra session of Congress lent realism to the threat of Democratic Leader Robinson to force one unless his $25,000,000 Federal food fund for Drought sufferers was accepted by the Administration. If Congress-rejected this proposal, Senator Robinson, confident of Insurgent assent, warned Republican leaders: "You can stick your appropriation bills up-on the shelf...
...differences between theatrical and cinema technique when each is properly handled. On the stage The Criminal Code was a parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist?a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes in the prison itself?the cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden's daughter (Constance Cummings) is not as absurd as it might have been and at no time does The Criminal Code rely...
...heart of the volume is M. Cazamian's contention that English humour is derived in part from the French. He finds, in Chaucer, support for his case, a case which does not in any way deny to English humour its peculiarly native quality. "The sap of rich realism and supple shrewdness which nourished his humour was of native racy flow. He announces the breadth of the Elizabethan drama and the subtlety of modern English humorists...
...audible self examination to discover that she really is in love with her cowboy, when the audience knew about it all along. As a rule there is nothing offensive about the play, it's just dull; but there is one scene which is inexcusable. Riggs, in his search for realism, paints with a broad brush. It's an old western custom to give a chivivari to an engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon a haystack to endure with the audience ten minutes of as vulgar wise-cracking...