Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throughout is magnificent. Certain of the photographic effects tend toward the abstract, such as he delicate designs made of waterlily stalks and water bugs. There are certain very powerful moments, moments when one seems to move closer to the picture than he is at other times. Perhaps the finest scene in Pather Panchali shows the sickness of the daughter during a storm. Windows fly open and the rain blows in; the mother labors at fastening them again. Finally she turns back to the dying child, who raises her arms to her, and the two embrace. It is a moment...
...treatment, as much sprawl as size. As Shaw's characters explain themselves and react on one another in an evening-long, often brilliant conversation piece, something veers toward tragedy, something else explodes into farce, a philosophic aria gives way to a dialectical trio, fireworks light up the scene, flummery disfigures it. Heartbreak House is quite marvelous in bits and pieces, but too miscellaneous and uneven as a whole. In the long final scene, where the immemorial charm of the English countryside is charged with the tensions of an approaching air raid, Shaw achieves for a time a kind...
...everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden. All the same, after a 21-year absence from Broadway, a play boasting...
...lacy web of sound. After a fine performance of Beethoven's Sonata in A Major, the two performers joined hands again to take their smiling bows. Occasion: a joint recital of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his pianist sister Hephzibah, after a twelve-year absence from the U.S. musical scene...
...genre becomes art when the painter touches common scenes with unexpected beauty or significance. David Gilmour Blythe's Trial Scene goes beyond the quaintness of the once-familiar to touch upon hell. The loutish, evil-looking jurors, the shouting prosecutor and the passive, shackled prisoner in yellow crudely resemble the phantasmagorias of Hieronymous Bosch, but they relate to fact. In Blythe's time, there was a proto-union of Irish immigrant miners that violently opposed exploitation by American industry. Calling themselves the "Molly Maguires" after the famed Irish rebel,*they operated outside the law, tried and condemned opponents...