Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opened this week at Manhattan's Walker Galleries was the first U. S. exhibition of John Skeaping's animal drawings. In almost all these the focus of Skeaping's interest is the interplay of muscle and shadow. On view were an infuriated elephant, with eyes bulging out of its head; grave, long-fingered, acrobatic monkeys; a Dartmoor pony standing in ferns that look like fossil prints; an old Zebu bull with mountainous shoulders; a leopard which is almost pure draftsmanship without substance. A formalized antelope reminded visitors of the wall drawings of Cro-Magnon cave...
...Roads to Town", with Don Ameche and Ann Sothern, and "Silent Barriers", featuring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer, are the pictures; one is sophisticated adventure, the other raw meat. The first is strongly under the influence of "It Happened One Night", which was so good picture that its baleful shadow is still hanging over Hollywood...
...have been merely a cloud passing across the sun. But more than one observer noted last week that a cool wind was blowing and a shadow had fallen on the President's popularity-his popularity not with the public but with that circle of a few thousand men who constitute official Washington. To the people who voted for him last November, Franklin Roosevelt was Mr. Right, but to official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith and trust in Roosevelt the victor...
...interest is freely admitted, and despite all opposition to such a characteristic, we somehow excuse it in her. Perhaps it is because she is a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining person in her own right, or because she makes up for it by her frankness and her ability to over shadow this selfishness with her other aimiable qualities, but we cannot condemn her for an instinctive emotion...
Colossus. The last circus that tried to slide into Manhattan under the Ringling shadow was Sells-Floto. "Mr. John" stifled this competition in a characteristic fashion...