Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of an old hobo legend, the Heavenly Express makes a pleasant theatre fantasy, but Playwright Bein leans on it too heavily as a plot device. He has also treated his fantasy far too coyly. The Overland Kid (John Garfield) dances all over the stage, cavorts on chairs and tables, makes pixie faces and Puckish gestures, behaves like someone who is more at home on a tricycle than in freight cars...
...whole thing was pleasant enough. In fact, if there were not better plays of family life, Morning Star might almost seem real...
...this thankless job was quiet, learned, earnest, long-laboring Coordinator (now ICC chairman) Joseph B. Eastman, whose honesty is honored by railroad men, railroad-baiters and shippers alike. Last week, after seven years' study, the Coordinator's subsidy report was published. It did not make pleasant reading for railroad...
Wrote Newsman Sullivan from Terre Haute two days after: "I visited the plant of the St. Louis Star-Times, in which the column has appeared for some years. . . . I had a pleasant visit with Newspaper Veteran Larner. ... To my unbounded amazement, he told me that he uses some of this column's original typewritten copy to drive home to young reporters the importance of submitting 'clean' copy to the Star-Times composing room. . . . The joker in it, to this reporter, was that composing-room foremen for the past 20 years have berated me for single-spacing...
This, with the added attraction of swelegant looking Kay Foster (voted by Downbeat to have the best looking legs in the business) and who, in my humble opinion, does a very good Job of Imitating Mildred Bailey, should make for a pleasant evening...