Word: waltzed
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...girls made a spectacular on trance. The lights were lowered to the accompaniment of disappointed boos, a hush came over the audience, and two dozen Central Massachusetts mermaids pranced to the water's edge to the tune of a liquid waltz played over the public address system. Twenty-four blue-clad forms dived in as one and glided into compelling formations. The one that excited most interest and speculation was the cartwheel, in which the fair ones split into groups of three. Two would tug at the legs of a third companion in what seemed to be an effort...
...Great Waltz (Fernand Gravet, Luise Rainer; TIME...
...Great Waltz (Fernand Gravet, Luise Rainer; TIME...
That The Great Waltz succeeds so notably in evoking the flowery nostalgia inherent in Strauss's music may be partly due to the ironic fact that world events have made imperial Vienna something more than the stock romantic setting it was when a similar operetta had its Manhattan stage opening four years ago. Certainly, admirers of the new Vienna will find much to deplore in the picture's affectionate portrait of an era when the principal effect of Revolution was that it inspired a young musician to write a march; and when the most important effect of barricades...
...unreal and as graceful as the music it records and celebrates, The Great Waltz should charm most cinemaddicts, give opponents of swing their happiest moments of the season. Good sequence: Strauss, driving through the outskirts of his city at dawn, fusing the song of a bird, the notes of a shepherd's flute, the salute of a carriage horn into Tales from the Vienna Woods...