Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without Reservations (RKO Radio) rescues Claudette Colbert from the whale-boned dignity of her recent mother-with-grown-children roles, brings her back again as the giggly, harebrained, pratfalling heroine of a romantic farce. In this highly specialized type of film, Veteran Colbert excels. The screwball love story was excellent...
Here & there the Old Vic proved disappointing. For a great repertory company, it had more than its quota of indifferent actors; there was no great distinction in their rendering of speech or verse. (The musicomedy-sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real...
So much for the surface. Beneath the welter of detail of Hecate County life, beneath the venomous satire, Wilson has contrived a tight little allegory, set up against an inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which...
You lose much of the Crimson's excellent reputation when you print such articles as the Balletgoer in your issue of May 9, 1946. J.A.L. reveals his total ignorance of ballet matters when he unfavorably compares the Ballet Russe ensemble as second rate with that of the Ballet Theater. Actually...
"Young Ricardo de la Fuente, handsome and schooled in the mannered ways of the Spanish aristocracy," says this novel's blurb, "came to 16th Century Mexico because of a romantic entanglement which violated the moral code of his class and time." One of Ricardo's first acts on...