Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wight. Northern portrait painter turned Southern novelist, to offer a long (634 pages), ambitious book in which almost all classes and degrees of Southerners-impoverished blue bloods, fox hunting pretenders, millhands, Negroes, intellectuals-are conscientiously fitted into the fictional picture. The result is somewhat reminiscent of an old-fashioned tableau, with symbolic figures representing Poverty lurking miserably on one side of the stage while heedless Wealth dances with frantic unconcern on the other. An imposing volume, beautifully bound and illustrated with five full-color reproductions of Artist Wight's portraits, South has much to recommend it: careful descriptions...
Gold Diggers of 1935 (Warner) should go far toward verifying the suspicion that Director Busby Berkeley's bizarre cinematic dance routines have lost all but academic interest. His masterpiece this time is a tableau in which a double row of white pianos, at which chorus girls sit waving their hands as though playing waltzes, waver, spin, undulate and finally assemble into a platform on which Gloria Stuart does a tap dance. Cinemaddicts who feel that this represents a perceptible improvement on Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation...
...made twice, once in English, once in French. The French version of each scene was made immediately after the English one, on the same set. Maurice Chevalier is the only performer who appears in both versions. The French one, in which the leading lady is Princess Paley, includes a tableau of nude models, jokes which would alarm the Legion of Decency...
...Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians' pigtails...
...Christ's Mother, the Servites were established in the U. S. in 1870. Ten years ago in Portland the local fathers set about building a sacred grotto and grove to their patroness. Selecting a site atop a sheet cliff outside the city, they filled it with statuary, including colored tableau groups representing Mary's Seven Sorrows.* They ran an elevator 150 ft. up the cliff so that tourists might pay to view the landscape and an 8�-ft. bronze statue of the Virgin. The whole thing the Servites called the Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother...