Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great (and honorable) talent to entertain children as their elders; and if the children are well pleased, those who take them to the theater are, as a rule, nicely taken care of too-which can rarely be said of the reverse process. An excellent movie for children is the Australian-made Bush Christmas (Rank; Universal-International). A passable one is the American-made Thunder in the Valley (20th Century...
Bush Christmas is the story of four white Australian children and one black one who set out, under pretense of a short camping trip, to trail a gang of horse thieves. The youngsters follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse...
...Rafferty and his associates, one dark and dour, one crudely comic, are exactly right as a child's idea of bad men. The players are all so likable and unaffected, and the universal moods of childhood adventure are so persuasive, that young moviegoers will probably forgive even the Australian accents. They may get their stiffest thrill-and the one least easily shared by their lily-livered escorts-watching the black boy eat live grubs...
Richard Dyer-Bennett, American Troubader, will present excerpts from his repertoire of six centuries of ballads, sea chanteys, folk ditties, and Australian Bush songs over the Network tonight at 9 o'clock...
...scribes, whose home she has passed "ever since I learned to walk." The tall statuesque entertainer chatted gaily about her career as a singer and burlesque artiste--"stripping is more fun"--and pointed out to her interested auditors her favorite item of clothing a necklace given her by an Australian Army officer, "one thing that I keep on all the time...