Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother (in black), his daughter Anna (in flame) and his son James in white tie & tails. With 3,500 other Manhattanites they paid $5 a head to dine, dance and see a pageant at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Not only were the President's favorite tunes, The Yellow Rose of Texas, Anchors Aweigh, Home on the Range, played by special appointment to the White House, but the celebrants enjoyed the President's favorite food to the extent of 7,000 scrambled eggs. Crowning event was the pageant: "Health, Wealth and Happiness." Central figure of "Health" was Charles Atlas...
...Rose Marie" in the movies has two glorious voices ringing back and forth to one another in the mountains and over the lakes of Canada. It has deepchested Nelson Eddy singing his love to Jeanette McDonald, and Jeanette responding, somewhat coyly, but with all her heart. This is ample recommendation for any eighty minutes' entertainment, and it should send you packing off for a bit of musical ecstasy. For to the untrained ear at least, both of their throats sound golden, and the recording, equally flawless...
...after this great concession, there is little else that one can say for the cinematic "Rose Marie." "Naughty Marietta" prepared one for seeing Nelson act quite brusquely toward his lady, but this picture sees him almost morose. Nelson is meant to be a Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman. And it is just a little jarring to see the Mountie in a fervent embrace with Jeanette on the mountainside, and then, the very next shot, to see him tearing from her arms her criminal brother, with no visible pangs of remorse. Duty, and all that, of course-but it really should have...
Oliver's second rebuff is deeper and more poignant. Since his boyhood he has felt a strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that he is going to be killed, when his failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario...
...thought of the justice or meaning of the conflict, ended happily and prosperously by conventional standards, Oliver was frustrated, tormented, doomed. Yet the philosopher seems to say that of the two, Oliver's life was the richer and more admirable. Oliver might never win the love of Rose, but he would never misunderstand her so grossly as Mario...