Word: wanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Producer McClintic goes the palm for 1936 Shakespearean innovation. He has represented the King's ghost as a spooky silent presence whose voice croaks hollowly from an off-stage microphone. As the Queen, pneumatic Judith Anderson makes good theatrical sense. As wan and woebegone Ophelia, Lillian Gish is Lillian Gish. Jo Mielziner's articulated Hamlet set caused the form-book perusers to recall a similarly successful one by Norman Bel Geddes for Raymond Massey...
...Original words: I came from Alabama Wid my banjo on my knee, I'm g'wan to Louisiana My true love for to see, It rained all night the day I left, The weather it was dry, The sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don't you cry. Oh! Susanna, Oh, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama, Wid my banjo on my knee...
...same time their letter wan circulated to members containing what was construed to refer to the League of Yellow Journalists. "We maintain that we are in NO WAY connected with other organizations seeking to follow in the wake of OUR brilliant success...
...sharp detail, maplike in their bright, crowded colors (TIME. April 3, 1933). But Painter Carroll's frescoes were simple, subdued, purely decorative idealizations. One of them, called Morning, showed three gracile, rosy-fleshed women floating in a pale blue, white-clouded sky. Another, Afternoon, showed the same figures wan and drooping in a nimbus of yellow light. Evening, on which Artist Carroll was streaking soft browns and blacks last week, shaped up as a galloping white horse with a muscular male draped on its back, one arm encircling another ZaSu-Pittsian female (see cut}. "There is no complicated...
...same jolly crew as "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...