Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the acts and opinions of their Congressmen the U.S. people last week could piece together an authoritative index of some problems they fare in 1943. No paramount issue of U.S. policy, foreign or domestic, had yet been placed for action before the new and determined 78th Congress, but the Senators and Representatives were making news all over the lot. Some was good, old-fashioned rowdy Congressional news which revolved around personalities; some reflected the serious tone of a Congress engaged...
...scenery's great when Betty Grable, John Payne and the Canadian Rockies get together. Add a dash of technicolor and flavor with Harry James' hot trumpet and you might have something in the way of escapist fare. But "Springtime in the Rockies" barely escapes with its life after being mistreated by such cinema bogeys as lack of plot and the inability of Grable or Payne to do much more than look very much like Mr. and Miss Atlantic City...
...Good fare for children is the simple Blackfoot fable Why People Die Forever ("so that we shall be sorry for each other"), the Confucianist fable With Deer's Milk He Supplied His Parents. By & large Editor Smith leaves out the sort of stories that Sunday-school teachers rely on. Her Old Testament anthology omits the tales of Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Daniel in favor of the minor prophets Amos, Hosea and Micah...
...Pied Piper" is escapist fare, to be sure, but it'll leave you with the feeling that here, at least, is a movie that recognizes and presents some of the less obvious problems of World...
Unfortunately, it is the story of this ace-high comedy which has been continually discussed: how Ginger has to get back home to Stevenson, Iowa, and fakes her age for a half-fare ticket, is caught by the conductor, takes Major Ray Milland for the well-known ride, weekends as his guest at Wallace Military Academy, straightens out his love life, and finally ends up at home in an anti-climactic finale...