Word: doe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honest U.S. isolationists last week got some help from recorded music that they would rather not have received. Released by the "Almanac Singers," a carefully anonymous Manhattan Communist ensemble, was an album of seven Songs for John Doe...
Professionally performed with new words to old folk tunes, John Doe's singing scrupulously echoed the mendacious Moscow tune: Franklin Roosevelt is lead ing an unwilling people into a J. P. Morgan war. The ballad of Billy Boy observes that
...Meet John Doe," which starts today at the Met, is a typical Frank Capra picture, combining all the virtues and all the faults of all the pictures Capra has produced. As a highly sentimental sermon on the innate goodness of man, the movie is slow-moving, maudlin, and embarassingly over-done in spots. As a serious warning to America that a Democracy is not altogether safe from some of its own power-craving citizens, it is rather well-timed and forcefully presented. And lastly, as a humorous love story about a newspaper sob sister and an erstwhile tramp, the picture...
...Meet John Doe" is a rehash of what Frank Capra has been doing for years. The plot is slightly different, and the characters have different names. But the same people do the same sort of things, and the same Capra hand can be felt behind all the scenes, delivering the same message of love thy neighbor...
...Doe-eyed Stripteuse Rosita Royce, who danced with seven doves and that's all, to the delectation of New York World's Fair visitors, once observed: "If I fluttered past Hitler with my doves it would take his mind off war." Last week Miss Royce volunteered to help train pigeons for national defense. With Recruiting Officer Daniel Munster she fluttered off to Philadelphia's Reyburn Plaza, where she provided ready proof that even strange pigeons are drawn to her. Lieut. Munster took note of everything...