Word: limpidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps "Hollywood Cavalcade," as its title implies, is meant to tell the evolution of the movie industry from a puny stream to a raging torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...
...gives him a ride in a big, black Hudson; he lives on an occasional hamburger, sleeps happily in thickets, in barns, on lawns. The little towns of the Midwest, the hitchhikers, lunchroom girls, farmers, high school kids, old people, down-and-outers, all pass by in Prokosch's limpid prose, phantasmagoria hauntingly created but incredible in a landscape sensuously seen, smelt and touched but unrecognizable. It is the same with Author Prokosch's ponderings: relevant, plausible, portentous and flimsy. Aware of the flimsiness, he attributes it to his material: "No crisis or tragedy [in America] becomes exact...
Here I am a Stranger (20th Century-Fox). Blubber-lipped David Paulding (Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George...
...this inconsequential libretto, Menotti added a fluffy, flippant, craftsmanlike score, bristling with tart melodies and limpid orchestration. NBC's studio audience of critics and musical celebrities guffawed, applauded and went home certain: 1) that Composer Menotti had turned out another operatic bestseller, 2) that he was still the most promising young composer on today's operatic horizon...
Bach Recital (E. Power Biggs, playing the Bach Organ at the Germanic Museum, Cambridge, Mass.: Technichord:* 10 sides). On Harvard's limpid-toned 18th-Century facsimile organ (TIME, March 21), Organist Biggs makes Bach sparkle. Contains a Bach-Vivaldi concerto, Trio Sonata No. 1 and the "St. Anne" Fugue...