Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dervish. At the end, after a Brahms waltz, which showed her still-youthful white body shimmering under turquoise veiling, he carried her off stage, just as he had done many a time long ago. One sentimentalist in the audience whispered: "Maybe they'll go home together." It was sentiment, but not romance, that had brought Ruth St. Denis from California to help Shawn raise money for scholarships on which returning soldiers could attend his Jacob's Pillow (Mass.) Dance Festival...
...beautiful in the loved person as he really is. Sir Arthur's attempt to demonstrate this fact by letting the lovers see each other as they really aren't is inevitably misleading as well as mushy. But because the story leaves room for a lot of sincere sentiment and for even more acting-for-acting's sake, the story is also an extremely efficient tear-jerker which can get past the guards of even the wariest. With genteel taste and loving care, RKO has turned it into the best sentimental picture of the season...
...does Congress stand on the big issues? No one knows for certain, but last week Congressional sentiment stacked up approximately like this...
GOODBYE, PROUD WORLD-Margaret Emerson Bailey-Scribner ($3). Teacher-poetess-journalist Bailey describes with intelligent lack of sentiment her childhood in Providence and the benevolent influence of a gentle professor father and a charming, spirited mother...
...house. Before he arrives, Sophie's fiancé, then her father, then her little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather than sentiment, for showing how precocious children and posturing stagefolk dramatize situations. The child sees her father slain by the Other Man; Sophie visualizes her husband's ashes brought to her, by his former mistress, in a silver urn. Then the husband really enters and the story is resolved...