Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wound into the plot quite logically and smoothly. Most musicals regard plot and tunes as mutually exclusive, and are forever wedging in extrancous specialty numbers. But "Louisiana Purchase" has maudlin Victor Moore and Zorina sliding into "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" with an unobtrusive kind of grace...
...Weren, since he is content to continue carrying around his old prejudices. It is experience with the cold and cruel world that has cut the long hair of traditional thinking from the Fogg. If Mr. Weren will come over we will endeavor to help him with his. Frederick R. Grace '30 Instructor in Fine Arts...
...along the line the draft is getting stiffen 2-As (deferred because they hold vital jobs) will be given six months' grace while their employers look for substitutes, then once again will have to prove their indispensability as civilians. Among 3-As, deferred for dependents, draft boards will make a careful recheck. Many a husband with a self-supporting wife was deferred because the Army figured that a peacetime soldier would not be much good if he had a wife to worry about. Now the Army won't bother about his emotions...
...Bess, both from the original production, give outstanding performances. Duncan's rendition of "I've Got Plenty of Nuttin" is especially fine. Harriet Jackson who sings "Summer-time" is a stunning Negress with a beautiful voice and a fine presence. The entire cast played with the ease and rhythmic grace that is so typically Negro and the staging of the show is very fine especially in the love duet and the group scenes...
...U.S.S. Atlanta (sponsored when it was launched by Margaret Gone With the Wind Mitchell), which went into commission at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn last week. First new cruiser to enter active duty in two years, she moves her 6,000 tons around with the grace of a Clipper, can do about 43 knots (some 50 m.p.h.), is figured to be faster by at least three knots than Japan's new 9,000-ton cruisers. A trio of sister ships will soon follow her into commission. The U.S. needs them badly. At last count, the Japs...