Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Banjo Eyes itself is more of a Cantor show window than a show. Loud, lavish, densely populated, it is full of corn-fed gags and Broadway energy. Though based on a funny farce, Three Men on a Horse, it remains faithful only to the plot, brazenly two-times the humor. The music is commonplace, the dancing lively and plentiful but uninspired. Pretty bad but never boring, Banjo Eyes serves well enough to bring home the prodigal...
...more incredible to those who recalled that the farmers had been notoriously excluded from the 1940 boom. Then came Lend-Lease, and with it Secretary Wickard's appeal for huge quantities of dairy, poultry and pork products. Although the wheat, cotton and corn surpluses remained oppressive, the demands for food crops had begun a price rise, which the Congressional hayseeds, smelling Utopia, quickly climbed aboard. It took a Roosevelt veto to stop them from freezing the surpluses; but nothing could stop them from raising the floor under farm prices, nor from demolishing Leon Henderson's gingerly attempts...
Botanist Knudson suspects that the bigger its chloroplasts, the bigger is a plant's power to synthesize food for its own growth-and for the nourishment of man and beast. So Knudson's colleagues are eagerly planning to adapt his method to develop more productive strains of corn, wheat, clover, other crops...
...authentic, affectionately painted regional period detail. He makes such dusty props as oiled-paper windows, Conestoga wagons and Liberty Poles as fresh as a glimpse at the youth of one's greatgrandparents; makes a succulent novelty of such frontier diet as pickerel, wild turkey, the bright yellow Indian corn...
...Corn Is Green (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). The warm story of the education of a talented Welsh miner, with Ethel Barrymore playing teacher...