Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowl of Milk. A fortnight ago, Manhattan police got a strange telephone call. A man's voice said: "This is Charles Smith. There is a dead man at 2078 Fifth Avenue...
...Government had no answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
...ground in which he can sow wheat must do it," clarioned Dev. But Eire's farmers knew that, with all the good intentions in the world, they could do nothing until the rains stopped and the drying winds began to blow. "We didn't need Patrick Smith to tell us we depended on God," they said...
Nora Prentiss (Warner) starts off as a story about a prim, married doctor (Kent Smith) who falls for a nightclub singer (Ann Sheridan) and cannot bear to tell his wife (Rosemary DeCamp). In spite of some dilution and artificiality, the early reels are fairly plausible and appealing-for at least they are about recognizable people in a recognizable predicament. Then artifice takes over...
...Sheridan has pleasant vigor in the earlier, comic scenes. Kent Smith, battling against plot circumstance, simulates some believable confusion and sickness of heart. But both players put up a losing fight against the story's unreality...