Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggests the possibility of perpetual motion. It looks like Lew Ayres is going to pursue Laraine Day forever. Lionel Barrymore and the customary minor characters are present along with Robert Young, who was probably thrown in to differentiate this from the first five in the series. In the news reel, the Wendell Wilkie crusade sweeps through England with W.W. discussing things with everyone from Churchill to the man in the shelter. Unfortunately for those wearied by his hoarse-voiced campaign. Willkie is still doing most of the talking...
...folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining, The Man on the Flying Trapeze. A strolling "prompter" was there to remind those who might weep. None did. Old Dode Fisk's last show...
...Pasadena, the Rose Bowl, oldest and most coveted of U. S. bowl games, drew the largest crowd: 91,500.* They went to see the final reel in the rags-to-riches thriller that made Clark Shaughnessy and his Stanford team the standout football performers of 1940. Up from the cellar to Pacific Coast champions in one season, the undefeated Indians faced a steamrolling Nebraska eleven that had been stopped only once-by mighty Minnesota...
...show at the U.T. may be sweet to the nice old lady from Des Moines, but to someone in the midst of preparation for an Ec or Physics exam,--it is bittersweet. Everyone is wildly happy through reel after reel. Then a tinge of dewey-eyed sadness and the molasses rolls up and down the aisles in great gooey gobs. The whole thing ought to give even the mildest cynic indigestion for weeks...
...characters used by Disney draughtsmen as models for their drawings; 4) music from Fantasia, played softly on a public-address system through the museum's ventilating ducts; 5) (most popular) a 4-by-5 screen on which visitors, seated on wooden benches, could see a soundless 15-minute reel of excerpts from everything from Steamboat Willie to Pinocchio...