Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calumet Farm is as deep in reserves as a Notre Dame football squad. Besides Armed, its stars include a plump little filly named Bewitch, whose high hindquarters make her look as if she were walking downhill. Winner of eight straight races, she is still unbeaten, easily the No. 1 two-year-old of the year. Also on the first team: Fervent, who broke the track record in the $60,000 American Derby; Faultless, the winner of last spring's Preakness...
...bawl out the customers. Seconds later, her ample hips bouncing, her abdomen lewdly rolling, she was shouting the blues at the top of her voice. Last week, after a 17-year absence, Bertha ("Chippie") Hill was back at her old trade. To Manhattan's smoke-filled Village Vanguard, deep in a Greenwich Village cellar, her name had drawn a record opening-night crowd which egged Chippie on with wild applause after each number and plied her with shots of straight gin after the show...
Last week, fingers snapping, eyes flashing behind her glasses, Chippie shouted through the applause: "What you wanna hear now?" From the bar at the rear a man's deep voice rose clearly above the noise: "Just sing, Chippie, just sing." So Chippie just sang: Steady Roll, Trouble in Mind, Baby Won't You Please Come Home...
...Deep Valley (Warner) is a story about lonely people, and what the breakdown of their loneliness does for them-and to them. A remote California farm is abruptly opened to contact with the world when a convict road gang bulldozes its way into the neighborhood. The daughter (Ida Lupino), a loveless, stammering slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course...
...rather pathetic picture because everyone concerned with it is obviously trying very hard to do something good, powerful and out of the ordinary. Occasionally, this effort brings the picture to life. There are also a few good flashes of melodrama. But on the whole, Deep Valley is reminiscent of many of the solemn little-theater plays of the early '20s: i.e., it is lost in mawkishness and pseudopoetic feeling masquerading...