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Carnival! (book by Michael Stewart, based on material by Helen Deutsch; music and lyrics by Bob Merrill) sets to music the traditional Continental world of the small, bedizened, sad-eyed circus troupe-a world not of popcorn but of pony ballets, with a touch of childlike innocence redeeming its tawdriness. Carnival! is, in fact, out of the movie Lili, with a faint echo or two of Liliom; it celebrates a milieu whose romantic lure is born of its realistic hardships, a milieu almost symbolically touching for its way of suggesting the loneliness in crowds, the heartbreak in gaiety...
...ATW180D, but Pepe goes on and on and on (for 3 hr. 15 min.) until even the hardiest celebrity chaser may get tired of the face-dropping. Just screening the titles takes so long that many a viewer will have finished his first box of popcorn before the action starts...
...Holy Name Society elected B. J. Lawler as its new president. Popcorn-munchers at the movie theater sat through Executive Suite and Brides of Dracula. Before cheering thousands, the high school eleven, sparked by Quarterback Ronnie Tapp, rolled to a 28-0 Homecoming-Day victory...
...want to be first, who believe first place is too crowded. Our cigarette is for the man who, as a boy, dreamed of becoming Vice President." The U.S. Patent Office has already received Brand X registration applications for both products-as well as an application for Brand X popcorn from Brand-X Products Co. of Philadelphia. A Hartford liquor store sells its own Brand X whisky, claims it outsells other brands...
...never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags full of oranges. "Our Christmas presents were always things we were going to get anyway," recalls Margaret Smith. "Mother always got my clothes too big so I would grow into them-how well I remember that...