Word: classicized
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...produced so far, but the producers have let her down on the story. This is "Spitfire," now showing at the R.K.O. Keith Theatre. Laid in a poor white district somewhere in the South, "Spitfire" is a period for marking time as regards Miss Hepburn's rise to the classic heights of Greta Garbo...
...which he managed to keep "honest, though diluted, for quite a third of the way," Author Graves pointed out the patent fact that the novel as Dickens left it is a first-rate book stuffed with second-rate padding. Graves offered "no apologies for tampering with a reputed classic." The late Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, novelist and explorer, had written a continuation of Dombey & Son without stirring up a hornet's nest. But going on from where Dickens left off was not the same thing as doing Dickens' job over. Rewriter Graves further annoyed Dickensians by asserting that...
...more serious sonatas, though it is generally in a pleasant and jolly mood. There are, however, frequent lapses into solemn and, plaintive movement even in the Allegro and Presto. The conventional ornaments for the sake of virtuosity are scarce. Menuhin's own playing is restrained in the classic traditional but always virile. "His Master's Voice" has recorded the Mozart sonata. Another recent recording by "His Master's Voice" is the great "Passacaglia and Fugue in C" of Bach, played by Marcel Dupre in good French style, perhaps too French...
Major Writer? Dickens' stock, which took a severe slump toward the end of the igth Century and has never regained its oldtime high, is not considered to have found its proper level. A "classic," he is no longer widely read, except in abridgments, but his reputation as a No. 1 English writer is not therefore less secure. Dickens "did for the whole English-speaking race what Burns had done for Scotland-he gave it a new conceit of itself." An unliterary author, he wrote for his immediate audience, and much of what he wrote died with his readers. Says...
...stilted foreignness. President Roosevelt's "You people must have faith; you must not be stampeded by rumors or guesses" is rendered "It is necessary for you to have belief in us. Do not put off your balance by false stories and chance ideas." Sometimes the result is classic simplicity, as in this example from a speech of Mussolini...