Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stars. Miss Muller has a pleasant accent, and enough screen presence to prove convincing. Paul Abraham has written some catchy tunes for the picture, but is at his best in certain novel moments where action and music are synchronized. Example: a roomful of typists pecking out a tap dance rhythm in time to orchestral accompaniment. Artificial as this sort of thing is, it is one of the notable features of the film. Characters walk in time to the music, doors open and close in strict tempo, orchestral voices imitate unheard sounds and expressive gestures on the screen...
...city's most genial visitors lave given such a glowing description of Manhattan subways as Father Robinson: 'With the even rhythm of great pistons n a pumping system, trains of cars slid to and fro. From distant conduits they sucked in their human packing, shot the swaying masses to central arteries, discharged them through clattering turnstiles which enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity...
...duration of the trip, it looks as if Miss Teasdale were going to capitulate any minute. She does not. Swaying dangerously along its erotic tightrope, the play manages to keep Miss Teasdale pure enough until the ultimate chaste gold band is securely around her long third finger. Savage Rhythm. Nowadays it is hard to tell what the once happy-go-lucky Producer John Golden is going to serve up next. The scene of his latest presentation is laid in the Mississippi swamps, where Playwrights Harry Hamilton and Norman Foster would have you believe voodooism is still rife. Savage Rhythm...
...notice, as I wander on succeeding Saturdays from game to game and from university to university, that the duty of shricking to rhythm of rhymed nonsense, a hangover from mauve days when the boys were turtle neck sweaters and hats with brims turned up and pinned back with brooches in the shape of "Harvard", "Yale," and "Princeton" pennants, is being relegated more and more to freshmen and alumni. The undergraduate of any intelligence is growing resentful of having his afternoon's enjoyment for which he paid disrupted by the necessity of having to howl such items as "Rickety...
...original play becomes Frances Williams and runs away with the show. She cuts up with Jack Sheehan, does an imitation of Hope Williams (no relation or friend of Frances) and sings three good songs, one funny ("I Shot the Works"), one tuneful ("As Time Goes By"), one both ("Is Rhythm Necessary...