Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacant lot in Beersheba, the musicians played a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Gershwin to 1,000 soldiers who overflowed the benches, squatted in the sand, or sat on the flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
Unfaithfully Yours often trips over its own snarled plot lines and falls flat. But Rex Harrison gives a sly, buoyant performance in a tough, wordy role. And some of Writer-Director-Producer Sturges' whimsy and brisk dialogue are worth the wait through the dull spots. In a cast heavy with "characters," Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander and Rudy Vallee stand out. Vallee is especially good as a stuffed-shirt multimillionaire...
...Toccata Marziala," by Williams, "Suite for Band in E Flat," by Holst, and "Commando March," by Barber fill out the first section of the program...
...rest of the time the President swam, signed documents, lunched, napped, appeared in pith helmet and various tails-out sport shirts, strolled around the base, ate dinner, played poker in the evenings. He never went fishing and almost never ventured outside of the base into the flat, rambling town of Key West...
...Oakie, and James Gleason couldn't be any better. Gag specialists have written a few high-voltage boffs into the script and the whole thing is packaged in some real nice technicolor. These are the merits. In spots they give the picture color and vitality. Where it falls horribly flat is in the story and in the overburden placed on the capabilities of the principle actors...