Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Playground", movie adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of the game name, Paramount has assembled such a host of stars and near-stars that oven though the theme of the picture revolves around the constant marital bickerings of a rich and sophisticated couple the production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have...
...theme of the picture in short is this: the quibbling couple who have been married, divorced, and married again, have no time for their children, and as a result the oldest daughter, Judie, played by Mary Brian, has the whole tribe on her hands. From then on the entire show is a rapid succession of quarrels, peace gatherings and cocktail parties. The warring couple finally declare truce for good, Judie marries the ever-present family-friend, in the person of Mr. March, and the two take all the children under their wing...
...requirements are not at all excessive: 1000 words a week and one long theme of 2000 words every month, on any subject whatsoever, from light phantasmagoria to Socratic dialogue. There is no final examination nor is it necessary to attend the lectures to pass with an honor grade...
Simplicity and the outdoor life are Foxcroft's keynotes. Horses are its main theme outside of classroom. The school has well-filled stables. Girls who can, may board their own horses. With their parents' consent and Miss Charlotte's approval of their horsemanship, they may ride in the foxhunts for which Middleburg is famed. Miss Charlotte, a hale, erect, full-bodied horsewoman in her late 30's with clear grey eyes, fresh complexion and prematurely grey hair, rides with them. Her piebald jumper's name is "War Paint...
...succeeded like Mr. Milne in giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...