Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of Our Town centres in a bashful boy-and-girl romance, but the general theme is more properly the chores and pleasures of Grover Corners as a whole. Without solemnity. Wilder seeks to transform the commonplaces of village life into the verities of human existence. Using fibred dialogue and lucid pantomime, for two acts he catches the fumbling wonderment of ordinary people, cakes their life with humor, charges it with feeling. The emotional climate is exactly right: warm...
Last week the No. 1 scandal in U. S. colleges was weightedly denounced. Walter Albert Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation, made this collegiate blackbirding the leading theme of his annual report. Dr. Jessup was astonished to discover that "drum majors and tuba players now find themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack...
Frank Churchill, Lee Harling, and Paul Smith have written music exactly suitable to the theme that has required three years of labor to produce. Perhaps what makes this a masterpiece of cinema entertainment, in addition to the color medium and settings, is the actual creation of seven individual characters, all of them dwarfs made with pen and ink, yet all tremendously human...
Stirring up the old theme of jingoism with an editorial on outlawing barbarism from warfare, Mr. Hearst recently raised his voice for a humanitarian principle that has recurrently been embraced by idealists and in turn refuted by the bestiality and blind emotion of man. David Lloyd George's and Winston Churchill's wholehearted endorsement of Mr. Hearst's suggestion would seem to illustrate the inability of modern man to realize that humane principles can never be applied...
...theme which was old four years ago when Dick Powell went through the paces of "Flirtation Walk", and which has been used in countless musical spectacles since that time, forms the basis of "Navy Blue and Gold," currently featured at the University Theatre. "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry", the co-feature, also plays upon an ancient theme in a familiar way; one might almost think this was review week...