Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere in between the old and the new regimes wander the disillusioned intellectuals. They talk endlessly about European culture, Rousseau, God and Utopia -and then sadly reach for their revolvers and shoot themselves. Or they find themselves, as Arkady does, sucked in either by the commercials or the aristocrats, and bewailing the loss of their ideals. Among these lost ideals: the women of St. Petersburg, who fight with the savagery of harpies for marriage and security...
Loyal Martha Graham cultists usually blame themselves if they fail to understand their high priestess. Less devoted followers of the No. 1 woman of modern dance are only apt to be confused as they wander desperately through her cryptic program notes to see what she is trying to tell them. Last week, to packed houses in Manhattan, Dance-Dramatist Graham unleashed two new messages for the cultists, the confused and the curious...
Except for these compromises with the American stage tradition, the Scottish village of Brigadoon is a highly unique place to spend an evening. It is a phantom village, taken out of time by an ingenious miracle, into which two American travelers happen to wander one day. What happens to them provides the story, and when one of them accidentally kills one of the townsfolk, he precipitates the best scene of the show. This is the funeral, a wonderful mixture of dance and bagpipe music which is full of the fascination that such ceremonies in foreign lands often hold...
...corn-colored stock characters of oldtime. Wild West melodrama are on hand. All of them are nicely preserved. Henry Fonda, as the half-reluctant, pistol-packing marshal of booming, lawless Tombstone, could hardly be better. Victor .Mature, who used to wander aimlessly through slick-haired juvenile roles before his 41-month hitch in the Coast Guard, actually does some acting as the dipsomaniac doctor-turned-renegade. Linda Darnell (a brunette for the last time before dyeing her hair honey-blonde to play Amber) is the lushly pretty dance-hall tart...
...Cockeyed Miracle, Ghost Frank Morgan, 56, and his late father, thirtyish Keenan Wynn, who obviously died at an early age, wander raffishly through a romantic farce. Their problem: to straighten out a few domestic-financial tangles which were left unsolved when Mr. Morgan was struck down by a heart attack. The movie is inoffensive fooling, but talented Comics Morgan and Wynn have reason to accuse their employers of unkind and inhuman treatment...