Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirley Temple, sweet 16, was soundly and lengthily kissed (in scenes for Kiss and Tell), appeared cool & collected throughout 99 solid bussings by 22 actors. Asked if she had done any private practicing, Shirley said, "Of course not. Oh, perhaps a kiss or two at a New Year's party or something like that." Said her mother, who had been watching Shirley at work: "My goodness, I wouldn't know. This is a new experience...
From across the mountain it is possible to smell the victory, clear and sweet. Its odor is different from the odor of defeat in eastern China. It is as different as is the odor of the valley of the Burma Road, full of bananas, pineapples and tropical ferns, from that of the highway to Kweiyang, covered with ice and the stink of death...
...Counihan is still convinced her real talent lies in art.) She has well in mind, before she starts, what each star can wear: "Bergman is something so beautiful you must play it down. You cannot overpower Ingrid with clothes." "Make Fontaine smart, feminine and refined." "Keep Shirley looking sweet sixteen with soft hair, pigtails and girlish pinafores...
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (book by Walter Kerr; produced by the Theater Guild) is a songbook history of American life. Combining folk music with Tin Pan Alley tunes, it warbles its way across the centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...
With such a wealth of engaging material; Sing Out, Sweet Land! had a golden opportunity that it largely muffs. For its music fails to vibrate, to express dramatically or even evoke nostalgically the picturesque American life it was part of. Instead of trying to get as close to history as it can in the way of frontier lustiness, sectional color and period sentiment, Sing Out, Sweet Land! burlesques a good deal of the past, and emasculates a good deal more...