Word: homey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pausing in their eager, pathetic quest for a happy, permanent roost, Mother Carey's cinema chicks scratch up a few adventures that were not of Mrs. Wiggin's planting, but whatever they unearth is homey stuff. Little Peter (Donnie Dunagan) prattles through an experiment in paperhanging with a three-year-old's matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over...
...window and a flooded bathroom, a Goodman rhapsody and a Schubert symphony. Things they wrote home about--marks, athletics, money, and evasions. And things they didn't---applause that pleaded for more at the Old Howard, the overdue library book, the one waitress who brought boiled eggs that tasted homey, the girl picked up unexpectedly at the House dance, the unfortunate encounter with the Yard...
...Author. Round-faced, mild-mannered William Lindsay White resembles his famed father, Kansas Editor William Allen White. But of his father's homey writing on Midwestern small-town life Author White's novel shows no trace. Born 37 years ago in Emporia, Kansas (five years after his father bought the Emporia Gazette), Author White well knows the Midwest he writes about. He knows other environments as well. At 18 his father took him to the Versailles Peace Conference. Graduated from Harvard in 1924, after a year at the University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years...
...Only Young Once," the co-feature, concerns the familiar homey family, but this time the whole thing is done so well that the result is delightful. Mickey Rooney is perfectly cast as a sixteen-year-old who travels the rocky road to romance, and Lewis Stone is well-night perfect as his understanding father...
...hand with two Golden Books of American Friendship With The Soviet Union weighing 50 Ib. each. These contained the autographs of 100,000 U. S. citizens, were presented by critical Communist Sympathizer Lament to genial, likable Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander Troyanovsky, who with his homey wife constantly presents Washington with a spectacle of cozy domesticity. "How unfortunate would our country be," twinkled the Ambassador, "if our Government and Stalin had not foreseen the aggressive tendencies of certain countries which want to jump on us at any moment...