Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil. The spot she is dreaming about is 14° south of the equator, 600 miles from the coast, 2,500 ft. up a mountain on a lush plateau full of monkeys, birds and wild flowers, where the temperature ranges from 68° to 78° the year round. She bought the Brazilian Shangri-la for peaceful, isolated vacations after a visit to her friends. Couturier Adrian and his wife, oldtime Cinemactress Janet Gaynor, who have a home across the valley. To begin with, Singer Martin will build a small house (bedroom, kitchen, bath) on the plateau, which...
...best of the good things- a round song called The Story of Alice-is done with the high-styled nonsensicality of a good British revue number. There is some of the same appeal in a song-and-dance fandango called Gruntled: the gimmick of the lyrics (ept, kempt, scrutable) is pretty old hat, but the general air and the wacky ballroom dancing are gay Among the sketches, there is a funny take-off of the current movie Marty and a fairly funny take-off of matinee ladies Two or three other skits, on such themes as Tennessee Williams and marriage...
MIXED-CLASS PLANES are being planned for transcontinental flights by T.W.A. (which recently led the move to cut transcontinental coach prices from $198 round trip to $160). T.W.A. wants to partition off the forward section of its Super G Constellations, load 19 coach passengers through a forward hatch, serve them no meals but give them the same fast, 8-hr, cross-country ride as first-class passengers. CAB will have to approve both price and partition...
...some 39 years before the film begins, Papa Saint-Forget, wanting a daughter, has become the unhappy parent of the five boys. In an effort to revive the prosperity that was Trezignan's when the quints were babies and the glory of all France, a committee decides to round up the brothers for a gala celebration of their 40th birthday...
...government. To make matters worse, the five, in the old man's view, had all turned out unsatisfactorily. "At their mother's funeral," he fumes, "they appeared, wearing gloves!" Nevertheless, the committee decides to go ahead with the fete, dispatches the boys' godfather to round them up. As portrayed by Fernandel, they are an odd lot indeed...