Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goin' to Town, by singing and dancing disguised as a midget mammy. The ingenue role is performed by Grace Herbert, a good-looking local night club entertainer, who delivers some of Composer Phil Charig's imperative tunes, among the best of which is the production's theme song...
...theme of the north wall is derived from the ancient Niebelung Legend and is symbolic of greed for power and its resultant oppression of humanity. The lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...
...hard to say whether "The Devil Is a Sissy" was written for Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, and Mickey Rooney, or whether it was discovered as a suitable vehicle for its child stars. At any rate, it is not a first class production, mostly because the theme has been treated more than once. Essentially it is rich boy versus poor boys, but give the rich boy an English accent and an English father-architect struggling for a living while his well-to-do wife cavorts in Florida, and you have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy...
...beginning to end, just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love each other." She intercepts a love letter, stirs up a series of rumpuses, and Mine Wesendonck agrees to flee with the musician. At the moment of her capitulation the ecstatic composer captures the long-sought theme for his "Liebestod." Mme Wesendonck then understands that when he makes love to her he has in his mind only the bright image of Isolde. This so disconcerts her that she decides not to accompany him after...
...first sentence sounds Lawrence's theme: "God, this is awful." Then he settles down to prove it with explicit descriptions of the hardships of barracks life and phonographic reproductions of the unqualified filth of his fellow-soldiers' speech. Most of the recruits had been taken off the dole, some were demoralized down-and-outers, a few were petty criminals who had escaped punishment by joining the Air Force. Even readers less puritanical than Lawrence may feel that he fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company...