Word: bittersweet
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...heart broken when the captain stabbed her husband to death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made in England, chose her for the leading role in preference to Evelyn Laye or Jeanette MacDonald. Aside from a contract to play the title role in British & Dominion's forthcoming Nell Gwynne and a bad habit of twitching her paws, Anna Neagle...
...across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went last year-with the possible exception of the Brazilian jungles-during an enviably carefree junket, he could hear tunes he had written for Bittersweet, and the more recent Words & Music simpering from phonographs and radios. With his own two hands, long head and (when he danced and sang for This Year of Grace in 1928-29) nimble feet and voice he has made a comfortable fortune. In London a capable and adoring staff that...
Musical: FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, BITTERSWEET, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus?great score, not much else...
...Viking Press ($2.50). It is felt at once that this book was a long time in the writing; that, now it is here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping, white-trash parents...