Word: sharpened
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...last festival (1928). Modernity has encroached on the Sacred Hill. A new office building of severe modern design rears beside the peaceful slope. A post orifice and police station have been erected to the left of the Festspielhaus, whose lawns, traditionally unkempt, have been carefully trimmed. Geometric flower beds sharpen the contrast to the former natural wilderness of the scene. Across the road the iron sword of Siegfried. Nothung, no longer flaunts its misinterpretation of a Wagnerian passage, placed there in Wartime. Sword and inscription have been removed. At the Villa Wahnfried, the end of the reign of the inexorable...
...huge ledger called Paul Whiteman's Scrap Book. Charles Irwin, master of ceremonies, turns the pages; each page is an act in the revue and most of the acts are boring. Director Anderson has made the picture a vehicle for glorifying stagecraft instead of using stagecraft to sharpen entertainment. Actually the entertainment value of King of Jazz is considerably less than that of an unelaborated concert by the Whiteman orchestra; the level of wit is indicated by such parodies as "All Noisy on the Eastern Front" and the "Bridal Veil" number in which, to an incredibly stupid lyric...