Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Burrows, a carpenter in Brougham, Ont., got his second summons for military service, with a sharp reminder that, if he ignored this one, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would drop around. Burrows, a Boer War veteran, is 66. Charlie Morton, a glassworker in Vancouver, B.C., also got a summons. Said Morton, who is 72: "I've got flat feet, a bad right arm, and a stiff back, but if they need me, I'm willing...
...Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...
...Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero}. As Author-Director Sturges finished it, it was a sharp and memorable refutation of the assumption that Sturges is incapable of ever flatly committing himself about anything. It opened with a leisurely, mock-pastoral shot of a weedy grave marked "W.T.G. Morton, Born 1819, Died 1868," and with a clear pleasant voice which addressed the audience as follows...
Even so, it is by no means without interest and a certain charm. Dr. Morton (Joel McCrea) is Sturges' least caricatured, most straightforwardly sympathetic hero to date. Some of the comedy, supplied chiefly and expertly by William Demarest (the picture is reduced largely to its comic episodes), is funny if you can enjoy laughter in contexts of physical misery. Some of the drama, supplied by McCrea, by Louis Jean Heidt as Horace Wells (who discovered the anesthetic possibilities of laughing gas) and by Harry Carey as Dr. Warren (who first used anesthesia for surgery), is firm, humane and moving...
...MORTON M. SCHMIDT...