Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franck: Psyché & Le Chasseur Maudit (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). In Psyché, Franck characteristically overlaid a classic pagan myth with some of his own emotional religiosity. Its companion tone poem, Le Chasseur, based on Teutonic myth, does not come off so well. Performance: excellent...
...yarn about a guy who marries when he's in a state of amnesia (a device that is becoming about as common as disguise in Italian opera), and learns that his wife is arriving from England on the eve of his marriage to another girl. Franchot Tone's quiet mugging carries the frail little piece, which includes a number of very, very funny scenes. Best is one in which Tone prepares to retire to bed with a girl who he thinks is his wife, but actually is only a friend. Evidently she is not a very good friend...
This week, confident behind the big tone and brilliant technique which resembles the work of Jascha Heifetz, the violinist he most admires, Isaac Stern again took his place on the stage in front of another San Franciscan, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, the first conductor of the season at Lewisohn. Said Isaac: "When I look back, I tremble to think of other kids going through the same thing...
...such was the tone of the proceedings in general. The "Grizzle" where student spectators of a pre-war era frequently held the main stairway with a fire hose against the minions of the law, now caters to elderly ladies crocheting in the lobby. Elsewhere along the river conditions were not up to par either, Small crafts of all kinds were in abundance, but the mammoth yachts of old, from the great three-masted schooners to the nearocean liners of the more opulent old grads, were still in the moth balls in which they have lanquished since...
...their lungs against the deafening sound of squally water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film to the pale air, sea and sand of the locale and to the story's mood of blindness, ambiquity and cryptic strain...