Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sparring partner in the show, but keeps it a secret lest Mature leave the show flat. While the players struggle manfully with the complications this deception causes, several quite bearable dance routines and tunes are introduced. Sparked by Mature as the egocentric fighter, "Footlight Serenade" is altogether a pleasant little show...
...Skyrocket." Melvin ("Mel") Allen, 29, a tall, thin, dark-and-curly-haired, good-looking young man from Alabama, wears clothes like a fashion plate from Esquire. Mel likes to wisecrack, does it often in a pleasant, comfortable voice. Like Red Barber, Allen seldom gets ruffled. Before he turned broadcaster he was an all-round athlete at Alabama U. (nickname: "The Skyrocket") and a semi-pro ballplayer. He is one of the most versatile and accurate U.S. sportscasters. When he reads from a script, his voice has no particular accent, but when he ad libs it comes straight from Dixie. Probable...
...been one of Ginger Rogers' strongest assets; here, it is the whole show. Her scenes on the train are at once broad, delicate and unflaggingly funny. In the cadets, she has some of the stiffest comic competition of the year. Ginger's real-life mother has a pleasant maternal moment playing her cinemama. Scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder seem to know all there is to know about the comedy inherent in the schoolboy mind. Billy Wilder, directing his first picture, puts it deftly across...
Maxwell Anderson's new play, "The Eve of St. Mark," resolutely digs into the fundamental problems this war poses for everyone, particularly for the generation which must fight. Presenting the war with powerful directness, the play gives it meaning for each individual. A pleasant relief from the "all out" slush with which some business men, women's clubs, and just plain slackers rationalize their existence, it shows plainly that this "global" struggle is still a war in which young men chiefly die, and young women chiefly weep...
...bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair-do which goes up and down like a broken window-shade. Errors, slight in themselves, have a cumulative effect which shatters the pleasant spell of such lines as "America--that's the country where everybody is responsible to everybody else for everything...