Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorrowful Jones" is a refreshing departure from the routine of Hope pictures. Laecille Ball, Mary Jane Sanders, and a host of very competent supporting actors take over very well for the Crosby-Lamour due. But the script is the big thing; with a real character to portray and with a wealth of Runnyon's humorous situations to draw upon, Hope is the best he's been in years...
...more modern picture there is hardly enough dancing to whet the appetite. To make matters worse for the "Barkleys" Ginger Rogers took her interim foray in serious acting so serious as to attempt to portray Sarah Berahardt reading the Marseillaise. This is about the aesthetic equivalent of Jimmy Durante playing Abraham Lincoln at Get-tysburg...
With the best of intentions, according to Miss Sayers, the churches have managed to portray "the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore-and this in the Name of One who assuredly never bored a soul in those 33 years during which He passed through the world like a flame...
...attempting to arrogate to the Council the power to refuse a group existence because the Council dislikes it, certain Council members have gone too far. Though they seek to portray themselves as democrats because they now would use this power against entrenched privilege as represented by the club system, they must realize that when the right of free association is so seriously curtailed, democracy is not being furthered but instead subverted...
...loud if not louder than Toscanini does. He shushes for pianissimos, exhorts for fortissimes. Sometimes he depicts the music physically, but where other conductors often merely imitate the motions of a violin bow or a cymbal, (something which has no value for anyone except the audience) Munch attempts to portray the spirit of the interpretation he is seeking (something which can be of considerable value to the musicians as well as to the audience...