Word: threads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chaplin's previous hits have been pearls of assorted humor strung on a thread of personality-the personality of an ineffectual, half pathetic, half grotesque, wholly sympathetic little comedian. The Great Dictator has enough pearls but no thread...
...Will TIME maintain, for example, that it is simply partisanship on the reader's own part which reads into the "Presidency" column a consistent thread of sly cynicism, imputing an oiled, opportunistic hypocrisy to President Roosevelt's every act and statement? Whereas Mr. Willkie is categorically declared to be "honest," and is invariably presented in the colors of a plain blunt man (with some few endearing foibles to be sure) yet withal a disinterested, liberal patriot...
...first, the plot would seem to be thread-bare, even implausible in spots. Well, it is. And many of the speeches are dull and the minor characters poorly drawn. But Gladys George dominates the play like Louis XIV's sun. And like him, "la piece...
...back." Later one of his colleagues said: "Churchill is a very full-blooded gentleman. Hitler has often mentioned the shortness of his patience, but Churchill's patience, as well as the British public's on this subject, now depends on a rapidly thinning thread...
...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...