Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Wore Tights is a rather tepid but likable show. It is at its best during the vaudeville numbers, and there are some pleasant songs (best: Kokomo, Indiana). Brash Dan Dailey (Father) has a personality as sharp and convincing as a breath of stage-door air: he can really sing, really dance and really act. Miss Grable can sing too; her pleasure in playing a generous and happy woman is contagious enough to make up for her shortcomings as an actress. What she can really do, of course, is dance. And she still holds undisputed title to the most gorgeous...
...marriage to jobless Lyle Ellery the day F.D.R. is inaugurated (and the banks are closed), ends as F.D.R.'s coffin is brought into the White House. Although there is a liberal sprinkling of headline stories of the period, and a deal of color which will call up a pleasant nostalgia in those who like to look back, this is by no means a historical novel of the Roosevelt years. Nor is it a typical story of "Metropolitan Americanus, Middle Class, White Collar." Amy may be unremarkable and typical enough, but Husband Lyle is a Harvard A.B. (cum laude...
...blonde, pleasant-looking girl in a summer print dress studied the bulletin board. For the first time she was seeing her name in print the way she had always wanted: Margaret Truman billed as soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
...usual British public-school curriculum, but in a way that would make most public teachers' hair stand on end. There are no examinations (says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...
...mountain went through an awful lot of labor, considering the results. But Father is still pleasant, solid entertainment...