Word: simplemindedness
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Henry V, which last night opened and closed its sold-out Boston engagement, emerged in Michael Benthall's production as a great big simple-minded heroic-comic pageant. Shakespeare is actually the least simpleminded of dramatists, and even this frankly jingoistic exercise in banner-waving is also a subtle, even...
Plot for a Graveyard. Some smart Broadway money was betting that Music Man would fall flat on its corn husks when it opened at the Majestic Theater. By Broadway standards, it is simpleminded and unsophisticated. It is also warmhearted, brilliantly performed and a lot of fun. The Music Man is...
The great 19th century ground swell of popular discontent swirled about real grievances in the U.S. rather than frothing up towards imaginary cures. Populism, which wanted cheaper money, Progressivism, which wanted cheaper everything, the Knights of Labor with their focus on the dinner pail and the dignity of those who...
The Best Things in Life Are Free (20th Century-Fox). The trouble with most movies that tell the success story of a famous figure in show business is that they are all success and no story: the producers all too often eliminate the key facts of the fellow's...
Double Bromide. In the La Banza, over-aggressively played on NBC's Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T.), had the opposite fault of Man on Spikes. Its point was crystal clear but simpleminded. An ambitious small-towner exploits his brother's boxing talents, and by overmatching him, causes...