Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideas. Besides, they believed the subject would be outdated before it reached the public. But Vidor's friends told him to go ahead and for a year Vidor hired a girl to do nothing but clip newspapers. Convinced that the common people were as interested in his theme as he was, he produced Our Daily Bread. Of it he says: "Not only is my heart in the picture, but my shirt as well...
...aboard destined for an alcoholic oblivion, the precious serum with him. Another is the blonde and brightly smiling Lady Mary, who glimpses the doctor and has sympathy. Melodramatic, if you like, but "Grand Canary" makes a far better picture than most of Hollywood's infinite variations of the Arrowsmith theme...
...many observers, the Roosevelt experiment appears to lack a cohesive and easily grasped theme. This is possibly due to the fact that the motif of his reforms is monetary. This subject is little understood even by bankers, whose professional decisions concerning the size of their loans and investments themselves affect the volume of credit currency outstanding and with it raise the price level. On the surface, to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy...
...father proudly waltzing to his son's and successor's music. The plot is intelligent, simple and reasonably true to history. The music has been spared the usual interpolations and "improvements." A chorus of 100. a ballet of 40, an orchestra of 54 supply background for the theme...
...pardonable, if a little exaggerated. A better book than Main Street, The Folks comes as near the indefinable quality of greatness as an honest story about plain people ever can. Most of its readers will feel that "great" should be applied only to a deeper or a higher theme than Author Suckow's, but few will deny the real worth of this solid masterpiece. Coming too late to start a school, The Folks has certainly finished one, and magna cum laude. The Midwest Novel has been written...