Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout in Warsaw went to mass. A few hours later they flocked to an international soccer match, were well pleased to see the Poles whip the Hungarians, 4-to-2. In bright red trolleys still carrying advertisements of German products, they rode to see Shirley Temple in The Little Princess. They bought lottery tickets in the tobacco shops. The best people still went to lunch at 2:30 and dragged it out until 6, sipped Kimmel at the streamlined Cafe Adria, laughed heartily over Geneva, a play by brash old Bernard Shaw about three dictators named Herr Battler, Signer Bombardone...
Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor...
CASUAL SLAUGHTERS-Virginia Hanson -Crime Club ($2). Kay Cornish and Major Adam Drew who collabored in Death Walks the Post, uncover an old mystery when they investigate two murders at Fort Michigan. Authentic army-post background, bright dialogue...
Samuel Orman Clark Jr. for James Ward Morris in the Tax Division. Bright brother of former Dean Charles Edward Clark of the Yale Law School, now a U. S. Circuit judge, Sam Clark, too, served first with SEC. His presence at Justice makes Treasury lawyers (of whom Tom Corcoran's young friend Edward Foley is now chief) feel more like working with the Attorney General's Office, which they hitherto avoided...
Until his satisfactory identification through omens, portents, visions & oracles, this 14th reincarnation of Buddha was a 5-year-old peasant boy named Tanchu, "quiet mannered with bright penetrating eyes." Now Tanchu will live in a gold-domed penthouse atop the Potala, his massive fortress-palace at Lhasa, spend the next 13 years under the lama regency learning about his previous incarnations and the intricate Lamaist ritual. If he reaches the age of 18 he will be consecrated, rule for the rest of his days...