Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberation Daily described the Olive incident as a result of "imperialist provocation," and added that Mr. Olive's "education" would serve as an example to all other provocative foreigners. Some American observers, eager not to provoke the Communists any further, looked for the silver lining. One reported that the incident had at least resulted in "some sort of working relationship" with the Communists...
...silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. "O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!" shouted the photographers. "Stand over there . . . now look this way-this way . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer, wave will-ya-with the hand, see? ... O.K., let's make him walk down the deck . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer...
Look for the Silver Lining (Warner), Hollywood's newest tender recollection of Broadway's glamourous past, tells the life story of the late Marilyn Miller. Fondly and sometimes foolishly, the script follows Marilyn (June Haver) from the day she joins up, in pigtails and high-button shoes, with her family's vaudeville act, to a fictitious revival of Sally in the 1930s. In between it sandwiches colorful chunks of a half dozen of Broadway's best-remembered shows, samplings of their biggest tune hits, reel after reel of dance routines by June Haver and Ray Bolger...
...makers of Silver Lining tried hard to include everything. There are ornate period sets of hotels and music halls, a touch of Uncle Tom's Cabin played in blackface by Marilyn's family, and the 1918 Armistice exploding in headlines and parades. Everything, in fact, is so crowded and cluttered (including the sound track which now & then goes slightly hoarse) that little room is left for nostalgia. In the midst of the uproar Miss Haver sweats out two whole decades and a dozen styles of dance routines. Though fresh and appealing in her pigtail period, she is never...
...Bolger, who dances in his own long-legged, rag-doll fashion-without even trying to imitate the crisper style of Jack Donahue. In one scene, as elegantly leggy as a giraffe, he ambles and ogles his way through a wonderful soft-shoe shuffle. Whenever Bolger is on hand, Silver Lining turns to pure gold. Otherwise, it is richly colored, but only medium-grade...