Word: illusionality
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Someone the size of Novelist Henry James might have made something out of this tormented story; it is quite a tribute to the present, less talented company that they make it even bearable. Neither the stars nor Hoagy Carmichael nor Ethel Barrymore can make it better than that. However, either...
The mock-ups of 17th Century garrets, inns and windmills are engagingly naive, and often drafty enough to send a chill through a steam-heated audience. The camera seems to eye everything with a cavalier detachment, and the sepia film gives the illusion that everything is seen through a blear...
As the figure who must carry the tragic implications of the play, Mendy Weisgal put an evening of intense effort into the part of Hotspur but gave at best an uneven performance. Weisgal's gestures were artificial, he threw away many of his lines--and much of the motivation of...
Little mishaps and irreverent remarks continued, but grew less frequent as the festivities narrowed toward the ceremony itself. The crowd began to gather early the night before in favored places near Buckingham Palace and Parliament Square. The crowd was good-natured, a bit rowdy, ill-clad and ill-fed. And...
Soon after 7 there were 5,000 people at the Etoile. The crowd was singing the Internationale and yelling "Hang De Gaulle!" "Ramadier must resign!" and "The police are with us"-the last being a Communist illusion which was soon to be rudely shattered.