Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Runyon script spiced with Hope's gags plus a racehorse, a moppet, and Lucille Ball--that's "Sorrowful Jones." And it's good, too, because Hope is not just the joke machine of the "Road" pictures, but a completely developed character from one of Runyon's best stories. True, there's plenty of the old Hope slapstick and a dozen of those gun-in-back wisecracks, but there's also a human being, Sorrowful Jones, the bookie, reacting to everything around him. It's good, moreover, because Lucille Ball Jerks tears with her smile of love and because the moppet...
...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...
...Sorrowful Jones" is a refreshing departure from the routine of Hope pictures. Laecille Ball, Mary Jane Sanders, and a host of very competent supporting actors take over very well for the Crosby-Lamour due. But the script is the big thing; with a real character to portray and with a wealth of Runnyon's humorous situations to draw upon, Hope is the best he's been in years...
Cantor, Donald Jerome of 50 Brookline Drive, West Hartford, Conn.; Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. Cudhes, David Woodbury of 11 Laton Street, Nashua, N. H. Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, N. H. Curran, Robert Louis of 155 Lancaster Street, Providence, R. I.; Hope High, Providence...
Ayars, James Sterling of 510 Iowa Street, Urbana, Ill.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Parreagoe, Donald Frank of 32 Phillips Street, Providence, R. I. Hope High, Providence, Boyle, Richard Donald of 98 Andem Street Providence R. L. Classical High Providence...