Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The celluloid capital no longer impairs our morals by glorifying the wicked. For this Allen Baxter dashes all over the country killing people, and still he does not win the hearts of his audience. No one feels the slightest twinge of romantic sorrow when Sylvia Sydney shoots him to death...
BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME-Peter Quennell-Viking ($3.50). THE ROMANTIC REBELS-Frances Winwar-Little, Brown ($3.50). In July 1811, Byron returned to England from the Near East. He was 23, bored, cynical, a voluptuary who declared he had "drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded...
Byron: The Years of Fame ends with Byron's disgrace and exile, makes the poet seem almost a weary old man by that time. The Romantic Rebels, on the other hand, makes it clear that the experiences of Keats and Shelley were only a little less sensational, that most...
''The astounding thing is that the great German people-educated, scientific, philosophical and romantic-not only did not resent [the Nazis'] horrible blood bath but endorsed it and acclaimed its author with the honors not only of a sovereign but almost of a god.
Unfortunately the Playgoer saw Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo...