Word: magnolia
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Count Giuseppe Volpi, 67, felt like a blooming magnolia-one of the pink & white magnolias that were bursting into flower again in Lausanne's formal gardens. For another spring had come to the new ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil...
Down South, Atlanta was decked with the soft pink bloom of magnolia, the white tracery of "breath-of-spring" shrubs, the yellow islands of jonquils in deep green grass. Hopeful fishermen ringed Atlanta's Piedmont Park Lake; but they never caught anything. On farms, fresh-turned furrows lay brick-red in the sun; farmers planting corn, cotton and peanuts shouted at their mules...
...Rhythm On the River," for the benefit of all magnolia-hating Yankees, is not dreamy-eyed hogwash about the Mississippi befo' de wa'. The "River" is the Hudson; the "Rhythm" is snappy; and there is very little about the show that is dreamy-eyed. The story concerns a song writing tycoon (variously surmised as a take-off on--(1) George Gershwin, (2) Cole Porter, (3) Palestrina) who has lost his touch; ergo, he hires two very substantial looking ghosts, baby-face Bing Crosby and anything-but-baby-face Mary Martin. The Crosby-Martin arrangement gets hot, finally takes the tune...
...original cast that appeared on Broadway, but for entertainment purposes they might have been just as well as not. Elizabeth Love, playing Cindy Lou, has none of the hamish inclinations which far too many road actresses have. She gives a performance that hits above specifications, combining magnolia-and-mint-julep sweetness with the righteous violence of a "snit" to make a very believable and likeable Cindy...
...went to Germany to find out what had happened to Frau Rosenheim. Instead, he found himself held on a trumped-up charge of political murder, escaped the headsman's block only through the intervention of a Nazi higher-up's mistress, the daughter of his old Magnolia Street friend Sam Silver...