Word: grandpas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a flag. "I had been to one or two funerals before, but I had never seen one like this funeral. . . . The grass felt soft and warm to my bare feet and the little puddles of sand were hot enough to burn my toes. . . . 'Trouble, trouble, trouble,' Grandpa whispered. . . . 'Man born of woman is full of trouble.'. . . The wind lifted Grandpa's white corn-silk beard up and down.... He was bent like an old tree weighted down with branches. . . . Uncle Mott's face was almost as white as the milkweed furze that...
...They lifted the coffin over the grave hole while Grandpa pulled the flag from over the coffin. They lowered Uncle Kim down into the mountain earth to the bottom of his shallow grave. . . . Now the great procession of people moved down the mountain faster than they had climbed...
Abraham's Grandpa. Rabbi Mann's synagogue has two other means of getting across his message: the Forum and the Sunday school. Sinai's Sunday school (TIME, Mar. 11, 1935) emphasizes the latest educational theories, retains a psychiatrist to look after the 600 boys & girls. Says Mann: "It is not too important to know who Abraham's grandpa was if children can learn to live normal, happy, useful lives...
Stone is unquestionably the only bright spot in the production. At times, however, he tends to be stiff and a little stagy in the role of Grandpa Vandehoff. But his natural humor does come across the footlights, which is more than can be said for anybody else in the cast...
...Pulitzer Prize winning Kaufman-Hart comedy now is a terrific anachronism. Written in the scant, mid-depression 40's, its unemployment problems, Communists bomb throwing scares, and the G-Men reach a totally unreceptive audience which is keyed to a wartime philosophy far from the laissez-faire attitude of Grandpa Vanderhof...