Word: characterization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he had a story to tell, he gave it to newspapermen succinctly, clearly, with a photographic eye for detail and colorful incident. More than that, he was an authentic, native character. When he had done something worth while he smiled for photographers. Once, when there was no particular reason...
Invitation to Happiness, by the six-year-old writer-director combination of Claude Binyon and Wesley Ruggles, is not exactly up Cinemactress Dunne's gay alley, but it is a setup for headstrong Cinemactor MacMurray, a field day for Character Actors William Collier Sr. and Charles Ruggles, Wesley'...
The difference in quality between planes is matched by differences in the quality of troops-their training, their arms, their physique, their leadership. In these respects, for example, 13 divisions of Greeks are certainly no match for 13 divisions of Germans. In peace time the quality of troops is purely...
Outside of typical Grade B weakness, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" rates a passing grade as a mystery thriller. The horror of the bleak, English moors--which is almost becoming the screen character of His Majesty's isle--is well supported by the business-like Sherlock of Basil Rathbone and...
If U. S. culture was not much enriched by the Lyric Theatre last week, the reputation of Composer Copland was. His music for the "character-ballet" Billy the Kid, much of it based on cowboy songs, was close-knit, percussive, incisive, wasting not a grace note in its evocation of...