Word: liat
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...another thing, when Lt. Joseph Cable sings "Younger Than Springtime" to the native girl Liat, the show becomes momentarily ordinary. The song is pretty enough--Bing Crosby and others will probably let us hear a great deal of it during the next few months--but it seems to exist chiefly because of its prettiness. The romance between Cable and Liat, which is handled quite remarkably up to the moment Cable begins to sing, loses a lot of its intensity by being interrupted for such a number. Perhaps the fault is more the singer's than the song's; William Tabbert...
...piece to Michener's is closer than I would have supposed possible. There are, of course, the wonderful "characters," such as the lusty, nonchalant Luther Billis and the colorful, to say the least, Bloody Mary. There is also the love story of Lt. Joseph Cable and the native girl Liat, beautifully and simply told...
...production is wonderful--fast and beautiful and marvelously ingenious. And so is the supporting cast, especially Myron McCormick as Luther and Betta St. John as Liat. And so is Ezio Pinza, whose voice is such a miracle that it probably does not matter that the words he lavishes it on cannot be understood...