Word: glamorizing
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...tactful. Sinatra is surrounded by such seasoned entertainers as Leon Errol and Jack Haley. The story is carefully simpleminded. Errol appears as a piano manufacturer on the financial skids. His factotum, Jack Haley, hits on the idea of building his scullery maid (Michele Morgan) into the season's glamor girl. Sinatra, playing a character named Frank Sinatra, is simply a shy young fellow next door who has struck up a songful flirtation with the slavey...
...first day at school, sees him playing Indian in the cornfields. He lives again through the moment when the twelve-year-old boy, not knowing that he was observed, gave up the money he was saving for a scout ax to a man in need. He sees the glamor and cruelty of his son's shy first love, sees him begin to assume responsibilities in the drugstore. Then one day the boy achieves the certitude that World War II is everybody's business. He enlists in the Navy. His father sees him go off to war, waving good...
...Diverted 2,000,000 syndicated readers with This New York, his weekly column of snooty glamor gossip...
...well aware that much could be done to improve the status of military-band music in the U.S. but the trouble lies in Washington, not in New Haven. My hat is off to young men like Captain Glenn Miller who can put aside the glamor and the big money of top-flight professional careers and enter upon the unexciting routine of an army band on army pay and throw into this new task such energy, enthusiasm and skill as to quicken the pulse and lighten the heart of everyone within hearing distance...
...cast as solidly British as Yorkshire pudding understands perfectly the naive glamor which should invest the characters in a story for children and lends the dogs excellent support. That the shabby, endearing little dog named Toots fails to run away with the show and bury it like a bone is due only to the startling magnificence of Pal, who plays Lassie, and to the remarkable abilities of Rudd Weatherwax, who trained and directed...