Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until One Man's Family is crossed with the Lone Ranger, U.S. radio will have no program quite like Un Homme. It is as French Canadian as the words of Alouette. The 45 characters who wander through the script portray life in la province during the 1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called...
...year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious historical fact. MARCH OF TIME, with the cooperation of 20-odd scientists, who appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more...
...known as the Midwest's biggest mural, over 100 feet long, and a pride of the WPA Art Project when it was painted eight years ago. It was meant to portray 100 years of Iowa history. It was painted in the neat, stiff manner which Grant Wood made famous, and just to make its immortality a sure bet, it was done in the favorite medium of Renaissance art, egg tempera...
...Miss Hayworth's business to portray a woman as bad as she is beautiful. On the rebound from a young bum (Glenn Ford) she marries an elegant bounder (George Macready), who falls desperately in love with her. She then spends a large part of the picture acting as much like a nympholept as the traffic will bear and, since all this transpires in Buenos Aires, the traffic is reasonably lively. Mr. Ford, meanwhile, develops a fierce protective attachment for his boss, Mr. Macready. He runs his dressy gambling hell for him, supersedes him in his fascist-minded control...
...History of a Scoundrel, starring George Sanders and having nothing to do with Anthony. It was not the first time Messrs. Loew and Lewin had brought art to Hollywood. Their Picture of Dorian Gray centered around a worm-crawling canvas painted by the Albright brothers, to portray Oscar Wilde's character .after his sins caught up with him. Few of the paintings of Anthony's temptation looked seductive enough to tempt a saint; mostly they seemed to show Anthony suffering the torments of hell...