Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Works. Columnist Pyle, still genuinely humble yet not unaffected by his new fame, is particularly worried lest the forthcoming Pyle-based movie portray him dashing around with pad & pencil, eagerly asking questions and making notes...
Sixty paintings by the young Negro artist, Jacob Lawrence, of New York, will be on public exhibit at the Harvard school of Design in Robinson Hall until June 17. Thirty of these paintings, which portray the migration of the Negro from the South to the North, are borrowed from the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the others are from the Phillips Gallery in Washington...
...story requires Mr. Cantor to portray himself as a Pandora's box of stale jokes, an egomaniac with whom Messrs. Horton & Sakall traffic only because he owns Dinah Shore, who is essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...
...many respects the picture is very good. If the test for a film is its ability to make one forget his inhibitions, his preconceived notions and expectations, then "The Contant Nymph" succeeds. Any attempt to portray the life of a composer to the audiences which attend movies is not liable to be good but this one is definitely worth seeing. Whether or not one likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn...
Even the cynical will admit that this is an excellent satire on the pseudo-cultured elite of our present-day business civilization. And it goes even one step further: it strips a 1943 movie of all its cheap thrills and tries to portray an intensely psychological situation, almost a "Turn of the Screw" of its own. Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that...