Word: backdropped
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Against the night sky, the backdrop of mountain and village, Frank Craven stands listening to the Albany train whistle. He says it is on time. That is all there is to Our Town, the picture. Our Town, the poem about the American village, has meanings which do not end there. Poet Edgar Lee Masters caught them in five lines of an epitaph in Spoon River...
...girl who desires "the decent thing" but shoots her husband because he brings his mistresses home to tea, Marjorie Lord Combines youthful beauty with more than adequate acting. Gordon Richards as Johnny Jelliwell and Barbara Brown as his seducible wife, are good enough backdrop for Horton's inimitable double-talk comedy. The show is well-polished from beginning to end and proceeds at a rapid clip. By such clever setting arrangements as substituting paintings of still life for those of nudes between the first two acts, more is said about Casanova's conversion to "the decent thing" than through dialogue...
Famous is an old-time two-line review: "Uncle Tom's Cabin played here last night. The dogs were good." Anything went in a Tom Show. Eliza might cross the ice against a backdrop of the tropics. There were comedy teams, minstrel troupes, animal acts. There were "double shows"-two Uncle Toms, two Topsies, two Legrees; there were even triple shows. Harriet Beecher Stowe once went to see Uncle Tom's Cabin in Hartford and had to have the plot explained...
...Dies Committee. Naturally. It would elevate his two-bit outfit into national significance, and give James a sounding-board for his fuzzy ideas. And the Dies Committee may not be at all averse to the idea of exploiting the publicity angles of a fascist movement with a Harvard backdrop. To prove impartiality, the Committee would point with pride to the fact that they had "exposed" another rightist group, as evidence of its impartiality. But they would have set up a straw man and knocked him down; while powerful and significant reactionary forces--for example, Father Coughlin's group...
...found King Ludwig still on his feet, shaking a sword while badgered by a corpse-faced woman with huge plaster breasts. Then they began to bring in the crutches. But not for Ludwig. While other mimes and ballerinas were hung and propped, while even the desiccated swan on the backdrop drooped under the caresses of a clambering nymph in white winter underwear, Ludwig stood it out. But as the music trailed off into the Pilgrim's Chorus, Ludwig sank to earth, plaintively opening a black umbrella...