Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love, and marriage will be discussed "from the Christian aspect" at 7:30 p.m. tonight by Professor Herbert Gezork, of the Andover Newton Theological Seminary...
Between acts last night I jotted the following onto my program: "If you'll excuse an expression I use, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a wonderful guy." These emphatically joyful words are from one of Mary Martin's songs in "South Pacific"; to see and hear her sing them is to see and hear at her very best one of the few genuine stars on the American musical stage today. Miss Martin's contribution to the show is prodigious, and I shall return...
...South Pacific," and the relationship of Oscar Hammerstein's 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...
...house. Niven, aged five, takes an immediate liking to her, but his sister--who distinguishes herself as a real five-star nogoodnick throughout--feels otherwise, and manages to make the two of them acutely unhappy for twenty years, at the end of which time they fall violently in love, reveal their burning passions to each other, but part forever due to a clever bit of trickery on the part of the sister...
This is all mixed with a modern girl, the niece of the now-senile Niven, who comes to stay in the house, in 1940 and meets a young flyer. They, too, are in love but manage to hide it from each other until almost too late. The elderly uncle observes all this with disquiet, and divides his time between hearing the voice of the non-dead Lark and advising the girl to get off the dime and marry...