Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bells of St. Mary's sound pleasant and sweet, Their tones you can never compare...
...cast, Tullio Carminati, as Jumel, is excellent, and Irene Bordoni, playing a French dressmaker who becomes a countess, is, as always, delightful; Shepperd Strudwick, the Napoleon addict is adequate, but his performance lacks sureness. Frederick Loewe's music is pleasant if not catching, the outstanding number being "Why Can't This Night Last Forever." William Dollar's choreography is often striking, but over balanced with quasi-ballet. Albert Johnson's revolving sets are superb...
...Children's Bureau (of the Department of Labor) is charged with the enforcement of the Act's child labor provisions. Pleasant, fortyish Beatrice McConnell, who used to administer Pennsylvania's child labor law, has the job of seeing that some 30,000 children under 16 are no longer employed in manufacturing or mining, that those between 16 and 18 shall not be employed in hazardous occupations...
Despite the dire end predicted for old Gustl by Bemelmans' boss (who said Bemelmans would end up no better), Gustl retired to a pleasant little cottage in Monte Carlo. "It's always wonderful." Bemelmans mused, "when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police...
...banish his work from mind in his leisure as to write fairy tales. Many eminent scientists here have become so ensnared in their research problems that any whimsical relaxation is out of the question. Mr. Clark, however, has successfully bridged the gap between physics and fantasy. In providing a pleasant story for children, he has also shown embattled physicists a method of useful relaxation; and to a literary world largely dominated by ultra-realistic writers, he has shown anew the almost-forgotten beauty and attractiveness of a story for the young...