Word: pollyannaism
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...Keaton. The dictator of the fourth largest industry possibly meditates upon a smug lawn and a White House in Washington-then sighs, returns to work. After all, he is a president. And, withdrawn from politics, he has become an unselfish deus ex machina to the movies, a veritable polychromatic Pollyanna...
Throughout England the famed "spirit of Locarno" showed signs of becoming a sort of international "Pollyanna" at the hands of unoriginal writers who did their best to grind it into a threadbare catch phrase...
...months it was held by the Theatre Guild as a vehicle for their favorite actress, Helen Westley. Margaret Wycherly plays the part in the present production with quavers and acidity admirably suited to the crone. Whitford Kane is somewhat less successful as the old taxidermist, who is a greybeard Pollyanna. There is also a girl who is deceived by a strutting young musician and a serenely suffering mother. All these combine in what might have been an excellent study of mediocre domesticity had it not been so wearisome with words...
...plot is simple at times being almost tedious in its leisurely narration. Particularly is this noticeable in the last act when the entire cast takes a hand in dabbling with anti-climax. Here the situation is perceptibly relieved by Miss Hitz, Pollyanna. Her pleasing effects in this scene come partly through contrast--the charming young woman of the present as compared with the gawky, freckled-faced girl of five years ago. But it is the truly delightful rendering of a distinctly difficult climax which completes the picture. We can not say too much for Miss Hitz' work. She might easily...
Andrew G. Pierce, newly elected President, declared : "Veteran mill men have characterized the depression as the "worst since the Civil War, and our experience would seem to bear out the statement." There seems to be little of the Pollyanna about Mr. Pierce. Concerning the company's future, he said, "the new year is not sufficiently advanced to make predictions valuable...