Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom has a motion picture of such grandiose pretensions violated so many axioms of good cinema. Fantasy is played utterly straight; consistently inappropriate tone is aggravated by dialogue flat, childish; top talent and lavish Technicolor are squandered...
...Budapest Quartet, in its only Boston appearance of the season, should, when restricted to three quartets, play those of Brahms and Mendelssohn as showpieces, rather than the far superior works of Haydn and Beethoven. Even with such a deficient program, however, the beauty of the group's tone and their remarkably close collaboration makes this concert one of the greatest pleasures of any musical season...
Some Washington newsmen, who knew that dickering for another Big Three meeting had gone on as recently as six weeks ago, were taken aback. Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an angry column taking the President to task for another "offhand remark." In a querulous tone he asked whether the President intended to turn over General MacArthurs administration of Japan to the UNO Security Council-an eleven-nation body in which five nations have an unchallengeable veto...
...tell the people of Europe and America how they could avoid war by learning the facts about money." He spoke ruefully: "It's all very well to die for an idea, but to die for an idea that you can't remember. . . ." He struck a conspiratorial tone: "I took Mussolini an economic theory that would have blown the roof off Europe...
...understandable and fairly real; but the man (well enough played by Walter Abel) is not convincing. Nor has Playwright van Druten sufficiently concentrated on The Mermaids Singing as a romantic duet. He has thrown in a mixed choir of nonfunctional minor characters who spoil the play's tone and slacken its tempo...