Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurstwood worked as a strikebreaking conductor; and almost all the flophouse and begging sequences have been deleted. Dreiser set off his small people with large philosophizing about the moral hypocrisy of the times, but the movie is mostly just about small people. Although it hews to Dreiser's somber story with honesty and artistry, Carrie lacks the novel's richly realistic "tangle of human life...
...Outcasts of Poker Flat (20th Century-Fox) plays hob with Bret Harte's somber 1869 tale about a gambler, a drunk and a couple of ladies of easy virtue who are booted out of a California Gold Rush town as undesirables and die of cold and starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin. The picture casts out much of the pungent realism of Harte's story and adds some new characters, a dash of old-hat movie melodramatics, a romance and a happy ending...
...soloist in the Mozart D minor Piano Concerto. Miss Hoffman, who won the position in a contest sponsored by the Pierian Sodality last fall, demonstrated a masterful, florid technique in what seemed to be an effortless performance. Her approach to the concerto was decidedly feminine. Emphasizing the somber, lyrical aspects of the work, her interpretation was a poctic and deeply personal one. Stanger's conducting of this piece showed great improvement over his previous efforts with Mozart. Combining delicacy with dynamism, he gave Miss Hoffman the line orchestral support she deserved...
...uncle as he can. He, too, sleeps till noon or later, and is torpid and drowsy till evening. By midnight he is fully awake, and his best hours run on from then till 5 or 6. Around the circus he wears riding clothes, but towards evening he assumes a somber elegance. In New York he goes on the town dressed like a career diplomat, sporting a cane or tightly rolled umbrella, black hat in the Anthony Eden style, gloves carried but not worn and suits cut in the English fashion...
Foreign students from all over Greater Boston will migrate to Memorial Hall tomorrow evening for the annual spring "Fun Fair" sponsored by the International Student Association. The gloomy Victorian interior will be covered over with gaudy travel posters to dispell the hall's somber atmosphere and provide the proper international flavor...