Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand, Hollywood was a busy town last week. Fifty productions were in the works at eleven studios in preparation for the new cinema season which is heralded each autumn as "Motion Pictures' Greatest Year." Publicity men beat out stories explaining that 1940 would see a swing from heavy drama to relaxing comedy and musicals. At Fox, Darryl Zanuck wound up The Great Profile, in which John Barrymore does a savage satire on his scrambled life. Frank Capra was te diously struggling over his latest comedy, Meet John Doe. Comics Jack Benny and Fred Allen were immortalizing their radio feud...
...supply programs that major networks, for one reason or another, cannot give. College news and feature interviews, like those with the Wellesley hoop-roll queen or Col. Stoopnagle, fill an important spot at 10.45. Primarily, the Network wants to be a test tube where new ideas in music drama or talks can be tested and tried...
...brooded one of the great analytical minds of literature. This "engineer of human souls," as Biographer Ernest Simmons calls him, graduated from a military engineering college in 1843, tunneled such depths into man's mind, spanned such cataracts of feeling, built such a monumental Cloaca Maxima of passionate drama that a contemporary critic said of Crime and Punishment that people with strong nerves became almost ill over the novel, and people with weak nerves were obliged to cease reading...
...office of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Martha Graham's glamorless dance counts a big audience from coast to coast, a huge following of high-minded, earnest, mop-haired disciples who treat their art as if it were the successor of the Greek or Elizabethan drama...
With such pictures of the countryside Critic Brooks heightens the dismal drama of New England's slow decline to which the book always returns. Bit by bit the great tradition ran down like the clocks that "had gone dead in many hamlets that had hummed with life." In the '80s "society had lost its vital interests. . . . In the absence of motives its mind was becalmed." The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson...