Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moments--comes in its first thirty seconds. Seated in a rocking chair, as the picture opens, and rocking gently to the accompaniment of some Twentieth Century Fox violinists who play that as yet unforgotten song beginning "M is for the many times I've missed you," an old and gray Betty Grable knits while a nostalgic female voice reveals over the sound-track that "there sits Mother." Fortunately, the picture rapidly retreats into the past, showing Mother when, as the title does not quite suggest, she was a vaudeville performer. This puts Betty Grable into some abruptly terminated costumes...
...ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...
...plot manages to increase this effect of mellow antiquity. Take Gaylord Ravenal, for instance. He is a Hero in Distress who, due to forces beyond his control, fails to support his Beloved Wife. He leaves her because he Loves her Truly. Finally, both of them Old and Gray, they Reunite on the Spot of their First Meeting. In order to communicate fully the spirit of the showboat era; it is almost necessary to have such a combination of stuffiness and conventionality. Ravenal is a stereotype of an age that took its stereotypes seriously. Consequently, although the narrative itself lacks vitality...
Stephen Spender, well-known British poet, will become the ninety-first Morris Gray Fund speaker when he addresses a New Lecture Hall audience on October 31, Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, disclosed yesterday...
Since the Morris Gray readings started in 1930, virtually every British and American poet of distinction has spoken here...