Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Philadelphia brimmed with comedy, tragicomedy and a few dashes of pure drama. First tragicomedy came when a 42-year-old elephant named Lizzie died at the Zoo, prompting the New Dealish Record to watch for other signs of impending Republican doom. Last week Lizzie's cousin Josephine had been named official symbol of the Republican Party...
Though timid cinemaddicts who dislike having boys in the house may be dismayed by a Rugby whose youthful masculinity is as unembellished as an old sneaker, even they will find homely, button-nosed Jimmy Lydon an improvement over the standard Hollywood juvenile. A veteran of WPA drama and radio serials, he was ousted in the finals of Producer David Selznick's hunt for a Tom Sawyer. He and Freddie Bartholomew raced to work in their cars every morning until Lydon bowled over an R. K. O. watchman and Producer Towne threatened to put them both...
...Army engineers removed the old car from a museum 75 yards away (built by Arthur Henry Fleming of California, who received the Légion d'Honneur for his beneficence) and rolled it down the track to the spot where Adolf Hitler wanted it for reasons of historical drama. Through the dusty windows the correspondents peered, saw Hitler sit down in the chair Foch had used, before a statue of the Marshal. At his right and left sat Göring and Keitel; at one end of the table Brauchitsch and Hess; at the other end Raeder and Ribbentrop...
Among Japanese esthetes there is a pretty distinction. On the one hand are those who study purely Japanese culture, lovers of No and Go (respectively formal drama and classical checkers), amateurs of the Thurberesque cartoons of Twelfth-Century Toba Sojo, appreciators of verse by the formal Hitomaro, experts in flower arrangement, tea-brewing and fish-breeding. On the other hand are the assiduous, tough-minded students of Chinese culture, whence sprang the Japanese culture which is now being foisted back on China. The former are generally peace-loving, stay-at-home liberals; the latter are nationalistic fire-eaters...
...Fredric March) - sick of the way she has been treating him and their ugly duckling daughter (16-year-old Rita Quigley) - is about to fly the coop, Cinemactress Crawford conies into her honest own. The result is a moving marital drama, which, although it talks more than most cinemas, also has more to say. It also demonstrates that Buchmanism is a bore, at least in the movies, and that Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Rose Hobart, Nigel Bruce and Bruce Cabot...