Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: We were in that front-row seat when the curtain rose on "The March of Time" this p.m. We got a wonderful thrill out of your vivid portrayals. Welcome back on the air! MRS. MARY DICKINS...
...aflatus is wanting. Besides, when one has to come a week in advance, and dwell in the midst of the desert that is Harvard before registration . . . . The rising splendor of Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen will brighten his spirits...
...Grand Hotel and other recent films, all the action in Skyscraper Souls takes place under one roof. Director Edgar Selwyn, who thinks writers for the cinemas deserve more credit than directors, had a less vivid mob to handle than the one in American Madness, but he disposed them so ably about the corridors and offices of the Dwight Building that its interior seems more densely populated and lively than that of most real edifices of comparable size. Typical shot: Banker Dwight guzzling champagne with his secretary's stenographer while artfully persuading her to take a trip on his yacht...
...grave. Long a successful journalist (London Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Manchester Guardian), Authoress Harris won a $5,000 prize with her first novel, The Seventh Gate. Her second novel may popularize a writer who is apparently Katherine Mansfield's nearest living literary relative. Her book, written in an extraordinarily vivid style, too pointed for extended novel-writing, is a sequence of short story-like sketches. These episodes are telescoped into homogeneity by the accidents of her plot rather than by its design...
...show in Cleveland's opera week. Newton Diehl Baker was lustily applauded when he entered. (Later an alert observer saw him pay for some punch with an old-fashioned big $1 bill.) Carmen, unlike murky Tom-Tom, was spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience was bothered the first night...