Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close-shaven grass courts of Forest Hills and Melbourne, 25-year-old Jack Kramer had swept all amateur tennis opponents before him. How would the Davis Cup hero do on a slippery board floor? He wasn't sure himself. Last week, in the U.S. indoor championships in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he put himself to the test. It was his first indoor tournament...
...Thaxter appears as Tracy's daughter. The effect is like opening a window, late in spring, on a parlor that has been closed all winter. But Miss Thaxter's freshness comes too late. In spite of all the sincerity and talent involved in it, The Sea of Grass is an epically dreary film...
...Grass (MGM) lasts only a couple of hours, but it is possible to age a lot during that time. The story is a duel between conservative Cattleman Spencer Tracy and progressive Attorney Melvyn Douglas. Which shall make use of the prairie-the cattle, which will leave it as God made it, or homesteading farmers who (Mr. Tracy keeps warning) will skin it alive? Since Lawyer Douglas has Progress and the Federal Government on his side, the homesteaders eventually...
There is some honest historical conflict, and a bit of honest unhappiness, in this movie. Spencer Tracy too often gazes stonily at God's sea of grass to show that he is both rugged individualist and nature mystic, but he plays with considerable force and style. As the decades roll by, Melvyn Douglas looks as wretched as the most vindictive moralist could decently expect. Miss Hepburn looks tense too, but arouses interest chiefly through her beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes...
With the demise of OPA in June, Dolan good naturedly acknowledged defeat. But he is convinced a method of holding the seersucker price line is to make it as popular in sultry summer Washington as it is on the banks of the Charles, grass stains...