Word: showoff
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Kandinsky's abstractions never fell into showoff coldness. There was passion enough in his pictures to overwhelm even so anti-abstract a social-realist painter as Mexico's Diego Rivera. "I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky," Rivera once wrote, "not anything more true and nothing more beautiful. A painting of Kandinsky gives no image of earthly life-it is life itself...
...crack-brained murderer, plays it for wry irony and unexpected humor as well as suspense. But he seems less interested in making his audiences believe in the story's outrageously rigged situations than in teasing, tricking and dazzling them with the masterful touch of a talented cinematic showoff. In a familiar shot of tennis spectators pivoting their heads to & fro, he plants the conspicuously immobile head of the murderer, staring at the hero. He intercuts a Forest Hills tennis match, which Granger desperately tries to win in time to intercept the villain, with a scene over a sewer grating...
...cheerful pictures, Henry does. It also shows Koerner's growing independence of involved, story-telling props. The children's airplane swing on which the figure poses might be taken to symbolize the young showoff side of any artist's make-up as well as the realist's happy lot-which is to go around looking. The jar of fish he totes with him might symbolize almost anything. But those two props do not make the painting, or even intrude on it too much...
...Paul Crabtree; produced by Trio Productions and Milo Thomas 1st) is a tiresome little showoff that won't even make use of a curtain. Purporting to be a rehearsal of a play in the early stages of production, it deliberately wallows in confusion, tries to thrive on disaster, and insists on being bosom friends with an audience that barely vouchsafes it a nod. Playwright-Director-Actor-Master of Ceremonies Crabtree takes potshots at latecomers while offering pointers on the play; the stage manager struggles with the prompt book while actors add inserts to injury; the lights blow a fuse...
Last week, in his Hollywood column, which the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicates to 400 newspapers, Showoff Johnson gave a rave review to his tasteless performance. Old Johnson fans needed no explanation of such zany didos; Johnson was simply dramatizing his crusade against folks who eat popcorn In theaters...