Word: vulgarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michael Redgrave as the air marshal is just the right mixture of phlegm and haw, and Ralph Truman as the peer is a jowly good fellow. Just right is George Rose, the commercial vulgarian who cons the better man down and then crows most abominably about...
...three centuries after his death Bruegel was considered a vulgarian and a boor, almost beneath the notice of refined art lovers. He painted the world around 16th Century Antwerp just as he saw it, with a sharp reporter's eye for detail. He drew with the assurance (though not the delicacy) of DÜrer, and the informal air of his most complex pictures conceals a master-composer's iron hand. Love of life-the smooth along with the rough-was the driving force in his work; he scorned artiness and sentimentality...
...perhaps have been trashier. There is nothing wrong with Bridie's subject. His play rather resembles Willa Gather's memorable novelette, A Lost Lady - in the lady herself, the perceptive old husband who dies (well played by Cecil Parker), the young romantic who idealizes her, the young vulgarian she sleeps with and marries. But far from capturing any of Willa Gather's lingering glow, Bridie fails to give Daphne a saving gaudiness. For one thing, he spends half his time parading a lot of open-stock minor characters whom nothing would justify, and only a vivacity they...