Word: hourglass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lillian Russell (20th Century-Fox), Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's semi-annual rummaging in the attic of U. S. culture, nostalgically evokes the howling vulgarities of the gilded era. This time the hourglass figure of Singer Lillian Russell serves as a prop on which to drape a long (two hours) and lavish account of her vocal triumphs and marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity...
...parole are no cures for crime. But they learned two encouraging facts: as their group grew older, 1) one man in three reformed, 2) the crimes of the rest became less obnoxious (stealing decreased, drunkenness increased). The Gluecks learned that most criminal careers, like the sands in an hourglass, run out in a definite period (usually ten to 15 years). Their explanation: most boys eventually grow up. But bad boys often do not mature before...