Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brock Pemberton's new comedy, "Harvey", is full of surprises. Surprise No. 1 is that the slow opening scene never comes to an end; surprise No. 2 is that the second scene reaches truly hilarious proportions; and surprise No. 3 that the end result is a very pleasant bit of fantasy with an occasionally inept script but a winning idea and the excellent Josephine Hull and Frank Fay in the leading roles...
...does. Jennifer Jones proves that she's got the versatility deserving of an Academy Award, and Robert Walker is pleasant when he's not trying to be cute. Albert Basserman rounds out a first-rate cast in a first-rate piece of cinema, simply conceived, beautifully executed...
...McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington, and Dr. Gallup's search for America's Absolutely Average Man. Pleasant, corny performers with extremely experienced voices, the radio-famed McGees will doubtless roll up another million and a half dollars or so for RKO (at an outlay of some $450,000). Films such as theirs, fairly popular in big cities and beloved in the provinces, are aptly known as topnotch...
...recently received the following communication: "This office has been advised by the Ninth Service Command that your son ... is expected home on furlough sometime this month. If at any time during his leave I can be of help to him or to you in making his visit pleasant, please let me know...
...battle was fought in the undulating countryside just west of where the Rhine divides (into the Waal and Lek) for its final course to the sea. Here the rich burghers of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam once had summer villas and liked to call its pleasant hills and forested hummocks "Little Switzerland." Here there were three fine towns: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, rich in the histories of ancient wars and in the traditions of peaceful living. And here Allied parachutists dropped behind German units like pieces on a checkerboard hopping over their opposition...