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...poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges for her to serve dinner...
...addition, through the gay pattern of his waltzes, sung or played with an effectiveness rarely surpassed on a cinema sound track, The Great Waltz lightly weaves a fragmentary legend of the composer's life. The result is an operetta in which, for once, story and score become part of the same picture-the familiar tapestry, this time brighter and more improbable than ever, of life and young love in old Vienna...
...designing. In his dramatic settings, he has combined vivid coloring with striking creative imagination. He consciously strives to make the surroundings fit the mood of the play. The settings, costumes, and lighting synchronize like the different themes in a piece of music. The artist endeavors to weave an intricate pattern of emotional stimulus, accompanying, but never over-shadowing, the central dramatic action...
When Secretary Hull speaks on international politics, as he did yesterday, his remarks tend to fall into a certain set pattern--one characterized by generality and vague idealism, but withal imbued with optimism. This note of optimism is refreshing. However clearly the facts may point to continued economic nationalism, however loudly self-designated "realists" may proclaim the inevitability of war, there remains in every rational person the hope that civilization may yet be constrained from committing suicide; and it is encouraging to hear a man in public office expressing that hope...
...experiments followed the same basic pattern: one group of rabbits was immunized with Type I antipneumococcus serum,* then half the group was stupefied with large doses of ethyl alcohol (or ether) that kept them under from three to 30 hours. Then the entire group received injections of Type I pneumococci. A second group of control animals was not immunized, but half that group was intoxicated and all were injected with the virulent germs, either in the flank or the lung...