Word: walpurgisnacht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is true, they're probably the only literary club in the world that over planned to walk through the streets of Salem carrying live goats and disembodied hands. That was last May 1--the dread "Walpurgisnacht"--when Hanging Hill was more bewitched than ever...
...handled by James Gleason as a Broadway agent, is very helpful. Miss Hayworth's first dance, in a vivid sea-green dress, is a pleasure to watch. At moments it looks as if the ballet number might amount to something; and the finale-a sort of genteel Walpurgisnacht in an enormously enlarged Gramercy Park-nearly picks the heavy show up and carries it places. The picture has really attractive songs by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher (best: Let's Stay Young Forever and People Have More Fun Than Anyone...
...gave way to an affectionate, romantic paintbrush. In lush, vibrant color, curling brush strokes that recalled Van Gogh's, he painted sunclean, little nudes in airy land scapes, glowing dunes and beaches of health and optimism. From the painter of Germany's grim, Gothic, post-war Walpurgisnacht, George Grosz was converted in the U.S. to a German lyricist celebrating love and nature with the old-time fervor of a Franz Schubert. Now he confesses: "I had been too nervous, too vain, too ambitious, now I can sit in the dunes and feel humble...
...human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...
...times, almost indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness, good in ratio to their snottiness. Best: misadventures of a gentle English celebrity who, lassoed into a Long Island week end of guaranteed peace & quiet, finds himself the agonized vortex of a Walpurgisnacht of corrupt artists, moneymen, scrimmaging Lesbians, carnivorous wives and dowagers. Their favorite adjective: "genuine...