Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been inaccessible to Allied correspondents since last September, when the U.P.'s Hugh Baillie and New York Timesman Frank Kluckhohn interviewed him, severally. But the press does not give up. Every week one crafty newsman, who knows the Emperor's fondness for sweets, sends a 3-lb. box of candy to the Palace with a request for an interview. So far, no dice. "The Emperor's first interviews," explains an Imperial Household official, "have still left a bitter taste with his advisers...
...Mermaids Singing (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) puts a pleasant little bauble in a very large box and fills in all the open spaces with tissue paper. The result, as always with an overwrapped gift, is disappointing...
Good shots: Bergman teaching a small boy to box; Crosby adding to his singing repertory of Latin with O Sanctissima, and embellishing the nuns' dingdong chorus of The Bells of St. Mary's with a low-down "Ring dem bells...
Yolanda and the Thief (MGM) transforms a slender, wide-eyed little Ludwig Bemelmans fantasy into an overstuffed Technicolor musical. Full of candy-box surrealism and extravagant nonsense, the picture is wasteful in many ways, but most notably in its misuse of Fred Astaire's talents...
...Shoving and pushing, and pushed and shoved, a dishonoured bag of bones about London, or carted like a herring in a box through tunnels in the clay beneath it, as I bump my head in an omnibus, or hang, half-suffocated, from a greasy strap in the Underground, I dream, like other Idealists and Saints and Social Thinkers, of a better world than this, a world that might be, a City of Heaven brought down at last to earth...