Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience was not disappointed in the show. Pat Hurley came out with a roar, both fists swinging. His white mustache bristled, his black-ribboned pince-nez wobbled on his nose. He pounded away on his main theme: that Career Diplomats George Atcheson Jr. and John S. Service (formerly in China posts, now political advisers to General MacArthur in Tokyo) had worked against him and the avowed U.S. policy of upholding Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government. Most specific of his accusations...
...winning make-believe in the hands of Bemelmans meets massacre in Irving Brecher's screenplay. The story concerns a lovely girl in a mythical land, convent-educated, who inherits millions and turns to her guardian angel for guidance through the maze of worldly wickedness she faces. It is a theme with light beauty, ethereal delicacy; for theatrical success, it would have to be handled with theatrical kid gloves. Brecher quite misses the boat. The story appears ridiculous as well as incredible and it is told in lines maudlin beyond imagination. Treated as fragile fancy, the nonsense may have been ingratiating...
...action Playwright Brown somehow squeezes enough to keep an audience pretty interested. He does it largely through brisk talk and lively G.I. gags and through the human, antiheroic picture he paints of soldier life. But though he can squeeze out interest, he cannot distill feeling or significance. The theme of his play is a sense of comradeship which is not just part of a code and which tough, cynical soldiers can no more escape than they can explain. But Playwright Brown cannot explain it for them-or even make it seem real...
Built around the theme of four servicemen returning to Harvard, the show will have a cast of 20 and will be presented at the Hasty Pudding clubhouse, rather than in Boston...
...young French poet and schoolmaster named Joseph Bédier decided, some 50 years ago, to examine all the thousands of variations on the theme and piece them together into an "authentic" version. After years of toil the Bédier Tristan was published in Paris in 1900; grateful Frenchmen gave Author Bédier a seat in the French Academy and bought 300 editions of his book. Last month Pantheon Books published the first complete English edition of Bédier's work, brilliantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, illustrated by Joet Nicolas...