Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memento. In Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. H. F. Morse asked city garbage-disposal officers to help her retrieve a pink girdle from the city dump, explained that it was an item "of great sentimental value."
"You don't want to isolate children in a world of make-believe," observed Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas, 58-year-old Manhattan school principal. "But with international conditions what they are, any small happiness that can be provided to counterbalance harsh realities is a fine thing." Fifty years...
It was the kind of trip the Prime Minister likes best-sights to see, a respectable minimum of speeches and official duties, a sentimental mission or two.
"Family Album," the remaining play, is a sentimental period piece. Its mood is bittersweet, and Coward has written one of his best bittersweet songs for it--a waltz entitled "Hearts and Flowers." And if it is not so neat as the opener, it is also nowhere nearly so superficial.
* A sentimental choice. St. John Ervine's Irish melodrama about rape, murder and an unpaid mortgage was the Guild's first hit 28 years ago, pulled the fledgling producers into the black at a time when they were down to their last $19.50. For news of another Ervine...