Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the tone of the film may be summed up in the scene where the wagon train starts across the great prairies. A bearded pioneer splits the air with a cry, and his covered wagon charges forward; the second Conestoga lurches ahead into the sunset. Then Hope hollers, and his team sprints forward. Too bad he forgets to hitch them to the wagon...
...Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate phrasing which won him fame alike among "straight" players and what he calls "the other kind"-meaning lowbrow jazz musicians...
...husband to sit in a "big crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby specialist (Cary Grant). When he tries to escape, she lures him back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same, until the ingenious huntress invents a third swain (Eddie Albert), meant to be a home-town admirer who yearns to take her away...
...York City's harassed and trigger-tempered bus drivers were given instructions for the holiday season. Instead of roaring: "Back in da bus!" they were asked to call out, "Please step toward the rear" in a "pleasant tone of voice...
...Microgroove records, with their clearer tone and 22½-minute playing time on each side, represented a much needed technical advance. But they also cut into other record sales by carrying an entire symphony on one 12-inch record for $4.85 v. $8.50 for a six-record RCA Victor album. And L.P. records scared phonograph buyers off; they didn't want to buy phonographs that turned at the old speed, especially when rumors got around of the new Victor record...