Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sister Benedict, Ingrid Bergman manages to combine beauty, great good humor and saintly dignity even while swinging a baseball bat. Taking her role seriously, Actress Bergman played it without make-up (with no damage to her good looks), visited parochial schools to see how nuns actually behave, wore ballet slippers under her robes to perfect a gliding step. Bergman fans, delighted that their idol is currently appearing in three hit pictures, will have a hard time choosing a favorite from the nun in Bells, the New Orleans cocotte in Saratoga Trunk and the lady psychiatrist in Spellbound...
...getting ready to induct their first man. Franklin Roosevelt had just signed a $1½ billion defense appropriation, and was about to light into Wendell Willkie. He was still an energetic and abidingly confident man. His guests, even when they disagreed with him, found him irresistibly full of good humor...
...skull. He tried to pass the time by reading a book of Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue to get better, they'll be serving us steak by the time they hang...
...purse in a nightclub. He makes an almost interminable march up Third Avenue, trying to hock his typewriter on a day when all the pawnshops are closed. He tumbles down a flight of stairs and wakes up in the city's alcoholic ward. The proper amount of ironic humor is observed in all that happens to the boozing hero, but the humor only relieves and does not lessen the cumulative horror of his predicament...
...story is ugly, so are the costumes, but the dancing is outstanding. Most of what humor there is comes from the dances and not from the book. Morton Gould's music, if not juke-box fodder, is at least appropriate...