Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least with its classification. It's would be a delusion to think that the flagrant examples of bad taste in "Music for Millions" have made it a poor picture; but except for a scattered routes, "Music for Millions" is quite different from its 1944 model, "Two Girls and a Sailor...
This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present...
...radio performances. But the lyrics had been thoroughly scrubbed up. Veteran fathers, momentarily alarmed by the melody the bobby-soxers were singing, were quickly reassured. Songwriter Moe Jaffe's modernized maid, as coolly respectable as a Junior League Nurses' Aide, has the situation well in hand; her sailor is as wholesome as an Eagle Scout...
...more than it deserved. The majority of its people have not gone out of their way to help the Navy or their families. For poorly furnished, cold, unpainted rooms they have charged the highest prices they could get. Indeed, there is no worse port in which a sailor can spend his well-earned leave than the grey misery of Halifax. In the length & breadth of the city he cannot get a seat in a movie or restaurant (and what restaurants !) without going ashore early and standing in a line often extending several blocks...
...Last week the Library announced that its first selections for the archives included 45 features, 48 short subjects, 104 newsreels. Among the feature winners: National Velvet, Going My Way, Meet Me in St. Louis, Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, None But the Lonely Heart, Two Girls and a Sailor...