Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whispered professional misgivings. It whispered that the picture was too long; that it was too gloomy for the general taste; that the novelty of war pictures was gone. The true trouble was that All Quiet had been injudiciously heralded as the great epic of the War. Courageous and vivid as it was, the audience did not find it, of its kind, as startling as The Big Parade. All Quiet is a freak, almost a monstrosity among pictures...
...Vivid Historical Film...
...Foundation is now completing a talking film on Massachusetts history, with Professor Albert Bushnell Hart depicting in vivid sequence the development of the Commonwealth. We are very anxious to record others, such as Professor Palmer and Dean Briggs, and, among the active members of the Faculty, Professors Taussig in economics, Parker in zoology, Lowes in English literature, and Rand in the Classics; a number of others have made plans for their talks...
With the skill of a great composer, the authoress establishes her main theme upon the plan of a symphony. The environment and teachings of the main character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...
That life on the stage was a tremendously amusing thing was the very vivid impression left by Miss Alice MacKenzie, star of "The Chocolate Soldier" when interviewed yesterday. "Of course", she said, "there is a lot of work connected with acting, especially when you play before an audience that sits and stares like so many wooden Indians as they do in Philadelphia. But just the same it is fun because it is a sort of game. There is always something different, just like the other night when I missed my one and forgot to come on the stage. Poor Charlie...