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Kaye and Crosby play a couple of singers who meeting in the army, become enormous successes in the post-war world, sort of mature Martin and Lewis types. They and a pair of insipid girl singers put on a musical comedy at a small but snowless Vermont ski resort, thus saving the investment of their former commanding general, a stern disciplinarian, but really a nice guy underneath. They succeed...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: White Christmas | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

...Varsity baseball candidates hurled pellets around Briggs Cage, the wheels in the H.A.A. ground and spewed out the 1948 schedule for Dolph Samborski's moundsmen. Samborski, having made the big cut last week, has some two weeks of indoor practice left before the nine heads South to try some snowless turf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Releases Varsity Nine's Slate for 1948 | 3/9/1948 | See Source »

When Zack and his girl stroll through subdued, snowless winter country, the landscape is photographed with an appreciation of the power and subtlety of weather that most U.S. moviemakers seem to lack. When Zack invites his new friends to a New Year's Eve party at the Y, the crowd there is precisely as it should be. So are the decorations and so-a typical Selznick touch-is the sailor, off at the side, solemnly working himself into a lather on the parallel bars. (Other Selznick touches: a stuffy senator asking Zack how the boys overseas are thinking politically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...Bits, Two-Time. In Medford, Ore., Two-Bits, a terrier who survived a dive down an 800-foot cliff into a snow bank, did it all over again on a snowless day, recovered, got sent to a farm to have a little sense trained into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Tailored by Tunesmith Irving Berlin for the suave, sleepy voice of Cinemactor Bing Crosby, this song (from Paramount's Holiday Inn) originally expressed the longing for sleet and ice of an Easterner marooned among the palm trees of Hollywood. But with thousands of U.S. servicemen facing snowless Christmases from North Africa to Guadalcanal, White Christmas has unexpectedly become the first big sentimental song hit of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White Christmas | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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