Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot. The interstices are filled by views of various orchestras, Rogers tooting on various instruments, and amateurish hip-wiggling by June Clyde. There is a fairly good tune called the "Valparaiso," and a passable Spanish dance team, which, however, are soon forgotten when the movie returns to its theme of snuggle-wuggling, itsibitsing, etc. The Moviegoer offers no further comment, realizing that the freedom of the press has its limitations...
...pappy-guy with the red mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort of an American game bird. Nope, that gentleman is obviously describing a fish and in doing so is committing an advertising sin - he is diverting attention from the theme of the ad - autumnal hunting. . . . Personally, I'm going to stick to plain gasoline...
...Theme was the thumping old Civil War tune which sounded out rowdily at first, drove its way through elaborate orchestration, occasionally groaning, occasionally sighing, never quite reaching a definite conclusion. Composer Harris had chosen the tune because it was what his father had whistled in the mornings when he went striding out to his farmlands, in the evenings when he plodded wearily home. Intent was to keep the music "roughhewn, sinewy and directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma...
After amusing adventures in Spain which afterward provided Goethe with the theme for a play, Beaumarchais was attacked by a jealous nobleman whose mistress he had stolen. His release from prison after this scandalous affair made him a popular hero, since it was considered a triumph over arrogant nobles. His pamphlets and the success of The Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa...
...wrote black Langston Hughes on the first page of his first volume of poetry (The Weary Blues, 1926). Last week the same theme ran through Poet Hughes's first play. Mulatto. In the South the dominant white race demands that when a Negro takes a white woman he must pay instantly with his life. On the other hand when a white man takes a Negro woman, the tragedy is often delayed for years. Mulatto deals with the slower tragedy...