Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen creations. He indisputably is one of our great directors and certainly one of our greatest masters of the camera. No picture of his fails to be a photographic treat. He has his own style of photography which gets its virility from his daring use of light and shade and true black. He carries his during into each production, each seemingly being to him merely an experiment along another line...
...ghost is Murdoch Glourie (Robert Donat), a frivolous young shade whose dour father orders him to haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...
...swaying and chanting: "Peace, peace, it is truly wonderful, Father. Peace, peace, Father. You will save us, Father. You are God, Father. Father Divine is God, God, God." When they heard the truck driver's voice, one of the Negroes walked to the broken window, firmly drew the shade...
...abused widow of a man who not only betrayed her but also infected her son Oswald, Mme Nazimova, now 56, manages to convey every shade of pride, courage and despair, by her trick of singing rather than speaking her lines, by the manifold gestures of her hands and even of her back. Her supporting cast-McKay Morris, Harry Ellerbe and pretty Ona Munson, fresh from musicomedy-seems to have caught fire itself from the sparks of her genius...
...always found even in mature playwrights, to move his characters about in a manner that suggests natural impulse rather than the arbitrary manoeuvering of a puppet master. The theme of his play--the irreconcilability of opposite temperaments--is quite well handled, too, even though we suspect him of a shade too much fondness for the current vogue of up in the air endings. By Elinor Hughes "Boston Traveler...