Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these situation comedies without situation and without comedy are getting on audiences' nerves. Deanna Durban is a very nice kid who once had a very beautiful soprano voice, but the voice has either lost some of its touch or Deanna has just become very boring. At any rate, she isn't cute. And, to help matters, she kisses like Shirley Temple...
...isn't just single scenes that have a reminiscent flavor. The whole thing appears to come out of a cutting room of the 1935 days. Then it was new, and jolly, and something that everybody liked. Now it is just the same old stale stuff...
...report the activities of U.S. drys (TIME, Jan 24) who are agitating for a "new national prohibition law-at least for the duration." Isn't that what they said the last time...
...Angel is a fable about a foundling who is adopted by a platoon of psychologists, given the name of Alpha, and crammed to the scalp with Chinese, sociology, polysyllables, pure reason. At six, Alpha runs into a sentimental newshawk who is appalled when she says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights up, in an enormous neon dragon above Times Square, in the whistling convolutions...
...must be confessed that the performance of "Pinafore" was disappointing from a group that did such a magnificent job on "The Mikado" earlier in the week. For the first voice to really strike the ear in "The Mikado" was the clear baritone of Peacock as Pish-Tush (there isn't a bass in the entire company) and the next thing to hit was the ability of Ames. Then Peacock's voice cracked in "Trial by Jury" and broke in "Pinafore," while Ames couldn't talk by the end of the operetta. They have somewhat recovered, however...