Word: sennets
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...This sennet on the wreathed Tory horn electrified Britons who had all but forgotten, during his five years of wartime Parliamentary speeches, what Churchill can do at the cry of partisan tallyho. Cried Labor's startled Daily Herald: "Crazy broadcast." Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "Conscienceless demagogy." Cried Labor Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash...
...performance will be a return engagement to the little theatre, as she made her legitimate stage debut at Brattle Hall but two seasons ago. Known to all movie fans from 17 to 70, it was she who introduced glamour to motion pictures. Starting her career in Hollywood with Mack Sennet and Keystone, her first pictures were the bathing-beauty and cop-chasing comedies of the silent picture era. Soon she was working under Cecil B. DeMille and is said to have caused men to swoon and women to turn chartreuse with envy...
...Sennets and Tuckets. Technically, a fanfare is a brief passage (from two to 25 seconds) for brasses, employed as an attention-getter for what follows. The Goossens fanfares, however, are more elaborate compositions, some scored for full orchestra, running as long as three minutes. Most of them explore themes suggested by their titles-Cowell's, for example, uses a Mexican air. Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets...
...also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet tradition...
...Mack Sennet's comedy, which appears to be included as a chaser for the stiff dose of Blondle Johnson, has a decided effect on the audience--that of making them want to go home. But just when the evening seems to be at its worst, a comic cartoon comes to the rescue, but the "Peanut Vender" spoils that, too. Every cloud has its silver lining, and fortunately for all concerned, Jack (Drums) Powell's excellent performance keeps the evening from being entirely wasted...