Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supporting players. It is in the way Clive Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink with his former butler, or ribs "daring" pictures in a male bathtub scene which is the nakedest thing outside a travelogue in years. It is the tone in which Roland Culver murmurs "Many congratulations" after Mrs. Wislack's announcement that her income is ?25,000 a year. It is in Miss Withers' rejection of the Duke-the prettiest, quietest kidding of British drawing-room drama on record. There has probably never been a richer, funnier anthology...
Following "Oklahoma" and "Sing Out, Sweet Land," "Dark of the Moon" stands out as an utterly different variety of Americana that banks for its appeal not on song or humor or tone alone, but on a coherent blend of the three. It steals into the imagination in a salty sort of way at the opening curtain and leaves one feeling he has really glimpsed a hearty chunk of our nation's spirit...
Hope for the Best (by William Mc-Cleery; produced by Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...
...skeptical tone was characteristic of Dr. Logan Clendening's newspaper column, but there was more than skepticism in the words...
Three Asterisks. The Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, rebutted Pravda's criticism of Pope Pius XII's Christmas statement of Vatican policy (TIME, Jan. 8). The rebuttal itself was not notable, but its tone was: it departed from L'Osservatore's custom by referring to Marshal Stalin by name and title in an editorial. It called Russia a "great country," and drew a friendly parallel between the Pope's and Stalin's ways of dealing with some matters. The editorial concluded with three asterisks, the signature of L'Osservatore...