Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grappling with history, this Alexander Korda production of an R. C. Sherriff-Walter Reisch screen play moves like the flow of molasses. Possibly because the narrative is a series of flashback recollections of Lady Hamilton, reclining in prison during her alcoholic dotage, its ponderous plodding can be attributed to the...
"When I consider her as a person," wrote Novelist James Branch Cabell of his friend, Ellen Glasgow, "she arouses in me a dark suspicion." Cabell's suspicion is that Ellen Glasgow "is a gentlewoman as well as a genius in an era unfavorable to either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused...
After booming the circulation of Egyptian newspapers for the past two months, the trial of Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning...
Designer Donald Oenslager's setting of Sir Colenso's dinner party on the terrace of the Star and Garter is in the grand romantic manner. But the play's best view is Katharine Cornell herself, once described by Shaw as "a gorgeous dark lady from the cradle...
For its spring show Idler made the poor choice of Ferenc Molnar's "The Swan." The play was trite and had all the essences of a dull evening. Yet it made a very amusing three hours for a small audience, perhaps unintentionally. The sets, acting, and make-up were all...