Word: touched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Setting up camp in the South Seas, Charles and Elsa Laughton have produced "The Beachcomber," their version of Somerset Maugham's "The Vessel of Wrath." Unique and distinctive in flavor, the picture shows the touch of original minds, unfettered with any great desire to produce a cash-register success. The pace is as slow and restful as South Sea surf. The comedy and tragedy of the plot are not, for the most part, dependent upon melodramatic action, but rather upon the subtle shades of acting. Yet the best acting, the best characterizations, are done by the supporting cast...
...regard to his blindness, it would seem that what hampers him is not being unable to see the piano; after all, most good pianists can play blindfolded with very little practice. And since Templeton has spent his entire life in darkness, he has developed a very sensitive touch that enables him to overcome this mechanical handicap. But what undoubtedly must have bothered him is the lack of visual perception of life around him. All musicians, whether they play swing or classical music, draw their inspiration from things that happen to them in life, that they can see and comprehend...
...settlement favorable to Cambridge, much of the credit will go to McNamara; if Cambridge comes out on the short end, it is more than likely that McNamara will wage a prolonged anti-Harvard campaign, playing on resentment at the University's vast holdings which city tax-collectors cannot touch, as a stepping stone to the Mayor's office...
...sure way to pick a fight with Arch McDonald is to touch him with peach fuzz. He has a holy horror of it, once broke the jaw of a joker who rubbed some...
...hard not to be ecstatic about a production like this, but flaws are to pick. Perhaps Miss Skinner draws too heavily on one of the fullest bags of tricks in the business; her white hands are at times just a touch too dramatic. But from Donald Oenslager's faithful Victorian drawing room set to Prossy's champagne jag, this production is all of a piece. It is worth going to see, for Pygmalion is not Mr. Shaw's only triumph...