Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happiest little airplane factory in the U. S. last week was the Aeronca plant at Cincinnati. Aeronca usually makes just two ships in December, but an ex-tap dancer's amazing stunt had upped December orders...
...Happiest of the lot was a handsome Viennese youth. Two years ago he began to correspond with then 14-year-old Lillian Wolfram, member of "The Pen Pals," a Glenside, Pa., high-school club which encourages boys & girls of different countries to write to each other. When Lillian's distant Pen Pal found himself getting into trouble with the Nazis, Father Wolfram undertook to get him out of the Reich and last week he arrived, a robust 18 to Lillian's sweet 16. "I am a Jew and just call me Harry," he smilingly told ship-newscameramen...
...unreal and as graceful as the music it records and celebrates, The Great Waltz should charm most cinemaddicts, give opponents of swing their happiest moments of the season. Good sequence: Strauss, driving through the outskirts of his city at dawn, fusing the song of a bird, the notes of a shepherd's flute, the salute of a carriage horn into Tales from the Vienna Woods...
...critics with a great chance for healthy severity. Good in Clemens' work is his drawing. He can draw like nobody's business. Good, but still self-conscious is his handling of paint. But his sense of placement on the canvas is rudimentary, his composition derivative, his imagination happiest in such lusty caricatures as Casey at the Bat. Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot...
Larry Clinton has taken the best parts, discarded the less valuable elements of "Reverie," and superimposed upon it the modern idiom of swing with superb effect. The result is the happiest since "Martha" took a new lease on life at the hands of swing and Connie Boswell. True, the subtle swaying rhythm has been sacrified to the accented rhythm of jazz and the chorale theme has been dropped; but the refreshing lack of a melodic sense of direction inherited from the original produces the most enhancing effect yet achieved in swing...