Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winged Victory is more a paean to youth than a picture of war. Incorrigibly boyish in tone, it might plead that most Air Forces cadets are little more than little boys. But the boyishness, which merely prettifies the first half of Winged Victory, somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained...
Miss Durbin portrays a young middle-western lady with an ambitious voice. She wants nothing so much as a chance to display it before Hit-Composer Franchot Tone. Her surprise and delight may be imagined when she discovers that her brother (Pat O'Brien) is the boozy butler of Composer Tone's Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming...
Upmost Caudillo. Belatedly, Colonel Perón and the Government tried to tone down the interview after they saw it in cold print in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. Perón claimed misunderstanding and misuse of off-the-record statements. Said a canny Argentine: "He doesn't say he didn't mean it; he says he didn't mean it to be published...
Before the announcements confirmed the overall agreements, Pravda changed its tone from one of raucous demand to purring satisfaction. Said Pravda...
Martinu's music got a fine critical reception. Though he inherits the great Czech tradition of Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak, Martinu does not work in their sunlit, melodically fecund vein. The emotional tone of his music is measured, but it has genuine dignity, drama and decided individuality. Softspoken, shy, 52-year-old Martinu grew up in the little Czech town of Policka, where his father was a shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious...