Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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That a play can be as great and yet as revolting as "The Little Foxes" is to the credit of Miss Lillian Hellman and a cast which wrung the last ounce of conviction from her lines. It is a bitter and disillusioning play with hardly a note of hope at the end. But it is a play whose construction is hard and compact, whose story never wanders, whose characters are so chiselled that they hurt the conscience. Tallulah Bankhead, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle and the rest are masters of every line and motion their parts could not be conceived...
...addition, I note that you refer to me as a "soldier of fortune." Usually, as I understand it, such a term is generally applied to a mercenary soldier, or one who has sold his services to any government for compensation. You may be interested to know that I never sold my services to any country, and that I always served as a volunteer, receiving the same compensation as officers of similar rank in the respective armies. And further, I never volunteered for any country unless I was sincerely in sympathy with their particular cause. It appears to me that...
...Gradual was the ascent. At Aberdeen, S. Dak., where 2,479 farms spread over Brown County produce 2,026,300 bushels of wheat a year, where 1,500 appeared beside the tracks, Candidate Dewey's hopeful note was muted. ("The country is young; it's only started. If we go to work...
...feet. When Monstro the Whale sneezes catastrophically, Jiminy says: "Gesundheit." Most people will call Jiminy Cricket the most human character in Pinocchio and Disney's best inspiration. Grimmest inspiration is Pleasure Island, where little boys turn into asses. Not the moral, but the one vulgarly realistic false note, will scare the wits out of little boys and girls...
Several landscapes by Adolf Dehn lend a placid note to an otherwise fantastic exhibit. With paintings by Grosz, Braque, Archipenko, and Gleizes decorating the walls, it might be assumed that the conservative Dehn watercolors would be reduced to insignificance. But Dehn does more than hold his own. His clear, wind-washed landscapes are executed in a manner similar to that of Edward Hopper. The colors are neutralized but are far from dirty; Dehn's whole technique is that of a careful, better-than-average artist...