Word: ol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year when Evita got the diamond-encrusted Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica from Dictator Franco; but she wore a full-length mink cape. At the special performance of Lope de Vega's classic Spanish drama, Fuente Ovejuna in the Teatro Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour by arriving late (the opening was never delayed for Alfonso XIII), Evita again bugged Spanish eyes. She wore her mantilla (traditionally held rigorously straight) over a comb cocked rakishly above...
...received tips of vote-fixing in Cherokee County (55 votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated that he still had a few more firecrackers to shoot...
...Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time I Saw Paris. Lena Home sings Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Why Was I Born? with as much careful intensity as if she were expounding existentialism. Frank Sinatra does Ol' Man River nicely but with a reverence that robs the song of its all-important drive. Robert Walker is Kern and Van Heflin is his arranger...
Artistically, Song of the South could have used a much heavier helping of cartooning. Technically, the blending of two movie mediums is pure Disney wizardry. Ideologically, the picture is certain to land its maker in hot water. Tattered ol' Uncle Remus, who cheerfully "knew his place" in the easygoing world of late 19th
Chandler Harris fans remember them. But any entertainer who tries to conjure up the good old days is courting tough competition with the sentimental, richer-than-life memories of his audience. Harris Fan Disney must have known he was taking that risk. Wise ol' Uncle Remus himself once observed...