Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister ended, as he had begun, in high humor: "Therefore, tonight, I give you a message of good cheer-you deserve it and the facts indorse it. But be it good cheer or be it bad cheer, it will make no difference to us. We shall drive on to the end, and do our duty, win or die. God helping us, we can do no other." Not many Britons realized that these final words were a graceful echo from Woodrow Wilson's declaration of war in 1917. President Wilson, speaking of the establishment of a universal dominion...
...tale of how one guerrilla movement grew big enough to drive the Kaiser's spike-helmeted legions out of the heart of the Ukraine in World War I. Its photography is undistinguished, its climaxes sometimes reminiscent of a Hollywood Western, but it has drive and spirit, occasional good humor, and a fine feeling of what the Russian people fight...
...results, four works for symphony orchestra, were complete this week: Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, a mixture of simplicity, tenderness and nobility; Kern's Portrait for Orchestra (Mark Twain), stringing out typically Kern melodies, portraying Mark Twain's humor in an impudent polka, his "gorgeous pilot house" in a broad andante cantabile; Thomson's brassy Mayor LaGuardia Waltzes and Canons for Dorothy Thompson...
...general subject, "The Corn Is Green" is lacking in power and persuasiveness. There is very little of the social consciousness that made the movies so fine. The local squire who has done everything to stop the school so that the old ways may continue, is treated only with a humor that makes him wholly likeable and amusing. Yet Emlyn Williams--perhaps better known as an actor on the British stage and screen--has built up two well-developed characters and created a powerful, if subjective, conflict between them. Around this he has built a play which though weak in itself...
With his repertoire of rapid-fire gags, Jerry Lester, next on the program, will bring the Yardlings some of the humor that has amused radio audiences for years. Smokes and refreshments will appear on the scene after the last chuckle has died away, '45 appetites being appeased by beer, soft drinks, pretzels, crackers, and cigarettes...