Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harding give good performances as the Justice and his wife. But there is little they can do to keep mawkishness from seeping into many of the scenes (Holmes paces slowly over old battleground, murmurs things about good men on both sides, while muted brasses play a retarded "Battle Hymn of the Republic.") "The Magnificent Yankee' is dilutely pleasant entertainment. A life of Holmes would lead one to expect more...
Southern Californians complacently call Los Angeles TV "probably the nation's worst." Houston stars "Texas Ruby" whose hymn-singing draws top program mail. TV screens in the South and West resound with hillbilly music; in the Midwest, with quizzes; in the East, with teenage showoffs-sometimes talented, but more often...
...Faith Baldwin Theater of Romance (alternate Sats. 11 a.m., ABC) hopes to mirror the rosy view of U.S. life & love that has enchanted the Baldwin millions. The first show opened with harp strings, cloud formations and a lyric hymn to Maidenform ("The dream of a bra . . . the largest-selling brassiere in the world!"), illustrated with sexy shots of bra-girls skiing, stretching, or just standing around in half-dressed hauteur...
...into histrionics. What betrays the picture is a crude compromise with its producers' ideas of topical needs. Thus, the mood of tension and fear that goes before the amphibious attack is suddenly dissipated when the landing itself takes place to the jauntily aggressive tune of the Marine Corps hymn as it might be played by a recruiting band. Even worse is a final battlefield oration by Actor Jack
...April, and needing the old guard's machine support, took a position in between. Result: a compromise, with Gill as interim chairman until the mayoralty election, and Daley as vice chairman. The solution merely postponed the real fight. Said Paul Douglas, quoting from Cardinal Newman's famed hymn: "I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step enough...