Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes a musical a success perhaps more than anything else but the songs themselves are the little touches of humor and sentiment that characterized "Oklahoma!" "Memphis Bound" has them--all the way from the scene where Sir Joseph Porter sails onto the stage preceded by three boats marked "Sisters, Cousins, Aunts" to the situation which finds three Andrews-like sisters playing Josephine all at once because they are an inseparable team...
...armed forces stationed in the United States who hear symphony music performed by a noted orchestra on tour of service camps. June Allyson and and Marsha Hunt head a troupe of girl instrumentalists manning the violins for victory, Durante acts as manager of the outfit and general good humor man, and Miss O'Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi, and "Au Clare de Lune" by Larry Adler...
Lightened by slap-stick, by shrewd characterizations in the vitriol of Sinclair Lewis, and by its background lampoon, "Over Twenty-One" is familiar war-time humor. It trips gaily and successfully along on the assumption that there's something to be laughed at anywhere, even--or especially--in a jumble of newspapers, Hollywood plays, Army manuals, bugle calls, and very confused people...
Provided with a theme of exceptional realism and emotional intensity, the writers and directors have spent their efforts in futile attempts to add extraneous humor and pathos to the film...
...other Northwest citizens talked of Art Ritchie's new project with wry humor. West coast hotheads have been hating the Japanese free ever since Pearl Harbor. To the confirmed haters, the news that henceforth there will be a slight fee just seemed to make it official...