Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleanest U.S. city: Phoenix, Ariz. Most romantic cities: San Francisco, New Orleans, Boston, San Antonio.
At this period, Sun Yat-sen had welcomed Russian help for his revolution. Russia sent help-and organizers. One of the Kremlin's Far Eastern experts, with the romantic name of Michael Borodin (he had formerly been a Chicago dentist with the less romantic name of Mike Gruzenberg), brought...
Brahms: Sonata in F Minor (William Primrose, viola; William Kapell, piano; Victor, 6 sides). One of Brahms's last compositions, written originally for piano and clarinet, but alternately for piano and viola, in Brahms's heavy romantic style. Performance: good.
The opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same...
Top dog in the Ben Hecht screenplay is Adolph Menjou playing a Hollywood producer whose movies nosedive until he meets a wholesome miss (Andrea Leeds) with the proper pedestrian slant concerning what the public wants. She becomes his private consultant--"Miss Humanity"--on the plain citizen's tastes in story...