Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is at all times kept within the range of reason and provides a good background for the antics of the five ladies. The birth scene is particularly well handled and at no time is the inherent humor of the situation lost sight...
...upon whom his influence is so healthy that the Old Earl presently stops dunning his tenants, takes to churchgoing, is cured of his gout. The menace of an imposter Qackie Searl) for Ceddie's heirdom appears and is disposed of. The picture ends with a ceremonious and charming scene in which Ceddie, Dearest and the Old Earl are happily reunited on Ceddie's tenth birthday, while Ceddie's Brooklyn friends, gaily hobnobbing with the county families, celebrate on the castle lawn. Good shot: Ceddie apologizing to the grocer for having acquired a title...
...Roberta, his bashful meeting with Sondra, his wild joy when Sondra proposes to him, his wild despair when Roberta tells him she is going to have a baby. In a final burst of speed, the drama skips the actual murder, winds up with a half-symbolic, half-realistic trial scene, which concludes with the voices of the jury sending Clyde to the electric chair...
Most famed native of the Virgin Islands yet to appear on the world scene, Camille Pissarro was born a Danish citizen in 1830. Pissarro's father, a French Jew of Portuguese descent, had done quite well for himself as a hardware dealer on the island of St. Thomas. He sent little Camille to Paris to school, brought him back to the Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above...
...Flagstad was on hand to sing the difficult role of Leonore. For his libretto the bachelor Beethoven chose one that extolled marital love and devotion. To be near her husband imprisoned in a dungeon Leonore dresses as a boy, takes a job as the jailer's assistant. Dramatic scene comes when she helps dig her husband's grave, then outwits the tyrant who had plotted his murder. Other parts of the opera move along leisurely, seem dated and old-fashioned compared with the Beethoven symphonies. A prisoners' chorus is stirring, compassionately descriptive of their pitiful existence...