Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...
...town? Step on board, sailor. What's your name? . . . Boys, break it up and let this lovely vision come through. That's it, dear. What's your name?" New Yorkers who recalled his famed sidewalk interviews from Times Square ("Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave") recognized the voice of brassy George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy, radio buttonholer extraordinary (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). They found out last week that Private McCoy was now playing the six-station American Expeditionary radio circuit in North Africa...
...cocktails to diapers in one easy jump for the patriotic Radcliffe homebodies who have volunteered to give up the joys of the gay, mad Cambridge night life in favor of a quiet evening in somebody else's home...
Something is always happening to make commuters mad at the Long Island Rail Road. For instance: a waddling, mangy dog trotted for two miles down the track ahead of a local train jammed with commuters from Far Rockaway. The irked Manhattan-bound commuters were late again, as were other hundreds on a dozen trains that trailed the dog-slowed train...
...picture's somewhat redundant purpose is to make Americans madder at the Japs than they are anyhow. But just as human endurance has its limits, so does human credulity: the picture defeats its own purpose. Its grueling patchwork of cinematrocities is likely to make most cinemaddicts as mad at the film as at the Japanese...