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...these people moved through landscapes that Critic Brooks sees empathically as if through their eyes. "The wild flowers set the note of Whittier's country. . . . The pastoral stretches along the rivers, with their long lines of barns and sheds, blossomed with shadbush, the 'shad-blow,' for April in these valleys was the time of shadding, and the fish gave its name to flower and bird...
...half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast and a bit of shad roe. Only recently released from a Los Angeles hospital, where (after an auto accident) he spent over six months in a cast with a broken back, Brown was in fine digestive fettle, managed his stage eating with no aid from bicarbonate...
...first rector, Rev. James Dobbin, Episcopalian Shattuck has been chiefly headed by laymen. Last week, to replace retired Headmaster James S. ("The Bull") Guernsey, Shattuck inducted a clergyman. He was Rev. Donald G. Henning, 33, pipe-smoking, resonant rector of Christ Church, St. Paul. Not an Old Shad but a Toledo-bred onetime Roman Catholic, Shattuck's new head helped work his way through Kenyon College by fiddling in a band, cut his missionary teeth in South Dakota's Rose bud Indian Reservation, where he had four white communicants on his 110-mile circuit...
Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) exhibits Bing Crosby crooning pseudo-Hawaiian ditties through a wreath to the accompaniment of innumerable hula-hulas. As Tony Marvin, he is the indolent press-agent of Imperial Pineapple, spends his time lolling on his schooner with a hillbilly called Shad Buggle (Bob Burns). One of Marvin's sporadic publicity ideas is to choose a "Pineapple Girl" who would come to Hawaii for three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails...
...surmounting the obvious obstacles and weaknesses of the play. This reviewer confidently expected a sorry play acted by a cast of second-rate stock-company players, but he was pleasantly surprised. The parts of the small-town liberal editor, Doremus Jessup, of sharp-tongued Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium, for the use of exaggeration...