Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only two similarities between Oscar Straus' original "Chocolate Soldier" and M.G.M.'s dolled-up film of the same name: they have some of the same music, and neither of them is any good. Since a few of the songs aren't bad, the first point of resemblance may not bother you. As far as the second one is concerned, it just serves to show you two unbeatable ways to save your money...
Edward Arnold is hearty and his usual vigorous self as "Black Daniel" Webster, who would rather pitch horse-shoes and sip New Bedford ale than bother with politics. His climactic speech to the jury of despised Americans, far longer than the length of speeches movie audiences are generally supposed to go for, is a beautifully expressive bit of sustained emotion...
...that of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of the city. Besides the great ramshackle Raffles Hotel, Singapore boasts a Raffles Place, a Raffles Institution, a Raffles Library, a Raffles Museum, a Raffles statue-but not a Raffles soul. There were not many men in this Singapore who would bother, as Raffles did, to learn the Malayan language at 25, to undertake...
...deferred for dependents, draft boards will make a careful recheck. Many a husband with a self-supporting wife was deferred because the Army figured that a peacetime soldier would not be much good if he had a wife to worry about. Now the Army won't bother about his emotions...
...seen so much death and suffering," says he, "I have to find diversion in painting." When he ceases to get any fun out of a picture, he throws it aside and does another one. Because he finds meticulous draughtsmanship a bore, he doesn't even bother to finish the faces in his figures, leaves them eyelessly blank. But the people in Surgeon Souchon's paintings need faces no more than a poem needs footnotes. Effusive and bubbling as Oldster Souchon himself, they make their point not by depicting anything in particular, but by the sheer joyousness of their...