Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novel. Was Cass Timberlane autobiographical-a preview of Novelist Lewis' apprehensions and hopes about the marriage of a middle-aged man to a young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...
...reporting the courtship of the future Mrs. Rickenbacker (Lynn Bari), equally pleasant attention is given to the one-step, the waltz, even the schottische, to tunes like Too Much Mustard and Missouri Waltz. There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators. For well-articulated comedy and for beauty of evocative detail, this is one of the pictures of the year...
Phillip Barry's play was mostly Hepburn. Its plot was flimsy; it was, after all, just a simple courtship within an artificial framework, something that oriental and royal couples go through all the time. Stewart's added persiflage is amusing and unassuming. What makes "Without Love" thoroughly refreshing is the superior acting of la Hepburn, buoyant, mature, clever, with more than peaches-and-cream, and with as much sex as she can muster...
...soon as Twain's courtship is over with binding effects, the movie's pace slows down. The remainder is a dull exposition of business failures and literary successes. Twain's life is highly romanticized and, of course, through the magic of movies, on his lecture hours abroad, he is perfectly understood by Chinese, Indians, and Africans alike...
Despite a few fumbling attempts to forbid the banns, the writers of three of these books insist that the U.S. should prepare for a golden honeymoon with postwar Russia. There is unabashed wooing in Foster Rhea Dulles' The Road to Teheran. More surprising is the headlong courtship of Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Harvard sociologist who was once a member of Kerenski's Cabinet and an unrelenting foe of Lenin and Trotsky. There is nuptial jubilation in Walter Duranty's USSR. But there is little besides gloomy foreboding in David J. Dallin's Russia and Postwar Europe...