Word: doe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except in case of attack." So said Franklin Roosevelt on the eve of his election to a third term. That sentiment was a plank in the personal platform of almost every voter on November 4; there can be no doubt that "short of war" expressed the will of John Doe and family. It is this fact which makes the current furore over the Ellender Amendment to the Lease-Lend Bill seem a little incongruous, and also just a little alarming. The amendment rules out presidential power to use army, naval, or air forces anywhere except in the Western Hemisphere...
...this point Capra-Riskin ran into trouble. In the original version the girl's lovelorn pleading worked. But a preview-audience felt that the ending was not strong enough for what had preceded. For a while Capra-Riskin thought they would have to make Doe jump. They finally landed on the present ending-the girl not only tells Doe of her love but also reminds him that what he is trying to do has already been done, unsurpassably -by Jesus...
...have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure (in the middle of the picture they even fall back on coy effects with a small dog), not so much Bachian power as Lisztian super-schmalz. Their organ often sounds not so much a classic organ as a Mighty Wurlitzer...
...Cowboy and the Ladies. Both the sentimentality and the rhetoric of Meet John Doe profit greatly by its star, whose personality has a great tendency to de-schmalz sentiment and de-rant rhetoric. Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears...
...This week on TIME'S 18th anniversary, succeeding (among 938 others) Uncle Joe Cannon, Queen Mary, Charles Lindbergh, Albert Einstein, Al Capone and a bird dog, Gary Cooper as John Doe does appear on TIME'S cover...