Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illustrator Joseph St. Amand staggered out of a Los Angeles cinema where he had just beheld legsome Susan Hayward in Adam Had Four Sons (see p. 93), summoned all his superlatives, and announced the formation of a "Perfect Legs Institute of America," for which he (and a corps of press agents) demanded that Cinemactress Susan be drafted as president. Geewhizzed Artist St. Amand, who envisages a comprehensive "Academy of Feminine Perfection" as a sort of penultimate holding company of compelling female corporeality: "Not only does she have perfect legs; she has the poise and the intellect necessary...
...Adam Had Four Sons is not satisfied with this homey tranquillity. Soon Mrs. Stoddard dies, the fortune is wiped out, the governess shipped back home...
...Adam Had Four Sons (Columbia). As the stock market is crashing during the 1907 panic, Broker Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) casually tells his secretary: "There's nothing wrong with me that my family won't cure." Forthwith he bustles off to his wife (Fay Wray) and four sons, comfortably settled in an ample Connecticut establishment enlivened by an attractive young governess (Ingrid Bergman). As the Stoddard family bounces along in their touring car or gobbles a big Thanksgiving dinner, they give a pretty picture of opulent early 20th-century existence...
When the World War I boom refills Adam's purse, back comes the governess and everything begins to look like old times even though the cast has aged. But the war catches some of them, produces a troublesome little wife (Susan Hayward) for son David (Johnny Downs), who goes abroad with the Canadian Air Force...
Members of the Sophomore Class who received awards are: A. T. von Mebren, John F. Harvey, A. Peter Ruderman, Robert K. Weary, Adam Yarmolinsky, and M. Richter...