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Freeman, who has a maxim for everything, likes to say, "One of the great things about life is to keep movin' and not hurry, and that's largely a matter of schedulin' your day." To run on his timetable, not only Freeman himself but everyone about him has to keep moving. He gets up early-really early. He is up at 2:30, after five or six hours' sleep. (Back in 1940 his rising hour was 4:30, but, says Freeman, "the temptation always is to sneak up a few minutes earlier.") Every activity...
...Irving's old tale. It is part of a world that believes much more in gags than in ghosts. And from Sleepy Hollow you well might think that the old tale had been a trilogy. The show is incredibly poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable and pleasant, but by no means...
...woman who might have betrayed him. The pastor's son (Preben Lerdorff) is suffering because he has fallen in love with his young stepmother. His sense of honor is strong enough to poison his love, but not as strong as the love itself. The young wife (Lisbeth Movin) is in the worst predicament of the three; though she suffers agonies of desire, neither conscience nor pity can touch her. The others are merely damaged; she is a lost soul, dying before the spectators' eyes...
...piano playing into noise. And Maxine Sullivan does not slide around her notes after the fashion of the lithesome torchsinger. These two are not the only top-notch people in the show. There is Jimmy Rushing, who puts all of his large person into telling the world he's "Movin" to the Outskirts of Town" to get rid of the grocery boy and the iceman for the traditional reason. He also sings his famous "Going to Chicago Blues." Fortunately the management has spared a dozen tumbling acts and lets these various components of the feature attraction be more than names...
...prose folksong. Just before the shot that ends his story Clint takes a last look at the woods where his parents got him: "They're mighty purty right this minute, they shore are. The leaves is all red an' yaller, an' they're a-movin' gentle-like, back an' forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with the air so dang full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin...