Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blithe Spirit (United Artists) is as light-spun and unsubstantial as a cornucopia full of cotton candy. For people who like that kind of thing, it will be just as tasty. It is 99.9% Noel Coward, with his trademark of fashionably airy dialogue on every frame of film...
...Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited with dialogue, now & again drowses slightly...
...Rutherford's unceasingly funny impersonation of Madame Arcati, the medium who conjures up the ghostly troubles of the Condomine menage. In a brilliantly conceived mixture of types, Miss Rutherford bounces through the proceedings with all the healthy hilarity of a Girl Guide while she raises hob with the spirit world...
...counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal policy, fatal to enterprise, fatal to efficiency, fatal to the independent spirit of the worker...
This sudden revelation ... has disgusted, angered and saddened me. Not for any food I shall lose, but to think the commodities sent have been sent in such a spirit, and withdrawn with such delighted glee. . . . Well, now we know where we are-I hope you feel happy with all your food-keep...