Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson wasted no time in breaking the ice, going one up in the first on Charlie Senseney's triple following Crawford Hubbell's walk. Then came the top of the second which made the rest of the afternoon's play superflous...
...Ice Cream. Some of the props for this extravaganza were hard to find. The average pop drinker would get only 30 bottles of his favorite carbonated beverage (as compared to a prewar plenty of 50). Marshmallows were short. So was beer. Buying a fly rod called for more negotiation than ordering a pound of opium. But ice cream production was up; the U.S. would eat 850 million gallons (mostly chocolate and vanilla) as compared to 400 million in 1945. And the briefest, trickiest women's bathing suits yet appeared on window dummies and good-looking girls from coast...
...high-ranking officers' families, there would be mansions commandeered from the Japanese; for others, apartments. For most of the junior officers and enlisted men there would be Quonset huts, most of them without kitchen or bath. GHQ was ready with pick-up and delivery laundry service and ice delivery for staff officers' families...
Suspense (Monogram) has trouble deciding whether it is a murder thriller or an ice-skating extravaganza. It is chiefly notable as the first $1,000,000 production ever made by Monogram, a studio that normally specializes on low-budget quickies...
...Over the ice and through the superheated plot, the picture's heaviest load is lugged by a svelte, sultry, English-born skater who bills herself professionally as Belita (real name: Belita Gladys Lyne Jepson-Turner). Playing the star of an elaborate rink called the Ice Gardens, and wife of the owner, Belita cuts as fancy a figure on a bedroom set as she does on ice. Her problem is to keep a chilly eye on Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life...