Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fancy Free (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is another Disney movie that mixes cartoons and live actors. The master of ceremonies is Jiminy Cricket (voice by Cliff Edwards), a faintly oppressive optimist who tries to sell the audience on the debatable idea that in these troubled days the best thing one can do is laugh at cartoons and listen to Dinah Shore. As it turns out, one could do a lot worse...
...mind" sequences are neither novel nor completely clear. At least the purpose of the whimsy in the Pinocchio--Jiminy Cricket combo was evident from beginning to end, but here Massey's mind is a rebellious servant, while Massey minus mind is a master. The idea is frightening, betokening perhaps a now return to sentimental emotionalism, where we send though packing and live in a make-believe world of noble savgery...
Chirp. A wristwatch with an alarm based on the principle used by male crickets to produce their chirping (they rub a saw-toothed edge on one front wing against the other) will soon be put on sale by Switzerland's Vulcain Watch Co. The name: Vulcain Cricket. The price...
Habit. In Doncaster, England, nine-year-old George Cole, discharged from a hospital after treatment for a broken arm, plunged happily into a cricket match, landed back in the hospital a few hours later with a fractured skull...
Also on the speaker's platform sat about 50 of Oxfordshire's leading Tories-solid, well-fixed businessmen, country gentlemen and their ladies. Fifty or so of the lesser elect were allowed to sit on two rows of steps around the portico. Facing the platform, on the cricket green, was a roped enclosure with some 200 chairs. There sat the remainder of the party committeemen, their families, and others of the locally privileged...