Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan Opera's brawny glamor boy, Basso Ezio Pinza, who has long had his eye on Hollywood,* took a step in that direction: he announced that he would play the lead in Rodgers & Hammerstein's new Broadway musical next winter...
Clutching $20,000 (Chinese) in his chubby hand, a small American boy went into a Shanghai candy store to buy his regular afternoon popsicle. The shopkeeper shook his head, said popsicles now cost $30,000. Running home, the boy got an additional $10,000 from his mother. But in the few minutes he was away from the store, the price of popsicles had risen...
...boy's howl of dismay was only one in the millions that made up the screaming wake of China's jet-propelled inflation last week. In two days, while Chiang Kai-shek was desperately trying to bolster the morale of his dispirited armies in Central China, the value of China's currency on Shanghai's black market dropped by half. In Shanghai a wet-nurse unable to find food for her family went on strike, demanding 100 lbs. of rice from her employer. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary...
...came by, bent over with the weight of his wife wrapped in a quilt on his back. Asked how she was, the old man whispered "Mo akan" (Too late), but very low, so that the little boy clinging to the woman's dangling hand should not hear...
...screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop...