Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergoes little variety of characterization. In fact, 'Fanny" is "The Baker's Daughter" again, with the innate virtue of womanhood, backed by the mature but homely virtue of Raimu, once more triumphant over youthful indiscretion. Whether or not such repetition dulls French sensibilities, however, the lack of such basic themes in the Hollywood (or British) repertoire will insure a warm reception here, especially since that theme has been thoroughly seasoned with earthy humor unknown to the conventional dramatist and with backgrounds totally devoid of artificiality. Incidentally, the English titling is excellent...
...chief plot of "Les Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...
...instead of soft-headed saps." Time & again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial: "Let's not have an Oregon campaign based on who hates Communism most...
...King," the banquet pianist thought he could mean no other King but the Prime Minister, and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Grinning happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared so many years ... in the pursuit of Liberal ideals...
...Labor Party, the late Keir Hardie, was a serious Christian who denounced class warfare. Last week, 77 Labor members of Parliament proved that Hardie's tradition is still very much alive. Calling themselves the "Parliamentary Socialist Christian Group," the 77 published a plain-speaking pamphlet. Its theme: Christians should be in politics, and Labor should be their party...