Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thank you for the fine article on Canada's sweetheart. . . . Let us hope that the 12,500,000 prayers you mention tack on as a postscript the request that she never go to Hollywood. More power to Barbara Ann, and kudos to TIME for a most interesting story...
...only lasting comforts were algebra (his favorite form of escape) and Jenny. Protectively, she used to call him "my big child." Once, when he briefly returned to Trier, he wrote: "I have been making a daily pilgrimage to the old Westphalen house . . . which used to shelter my sweetheart. And every day people ask me right and left about the quondam 'most beautiful girl' in Trier, the 'Queen of the ball.' It's damned agreeable for a man to find that his wife lives on as an 'enchanted princess' in the imagination...
...concerto wins a prize (put up, in secret, by Merle) and he goes East and gets his eyes fixed. Successful and happy, he begins to hit the high spots. He can't bear to return to his blind sweetheart. Merle comes East and pretends to be a rich girl who loves music and can see. He falls for her again but this time neither of them is happy, for both feel that the blind girl is being treated shabbily. At last Dana's concerto is played in Carnegie Hall (with Artur Rubinstein at the piano); he hears...
...with an earthy young damsel, and naturally the here, who would ordinarily be on his way to China, saves th Unsuspecting wife Three times from Certain Death. That a respectable film can be made with such a framework is a personal triumph for producer Mary Pickford, America's erstwhile sweetheart...
After a few announcements of coming attractions, NBC and Du Mont signed off for a while. CBS switched to a Jackson Heights supermarket for a customer-participation show called Missus Goes A-Shopping. While the camera lingered over signs advertising Bab-O, Sweetheart Soap and Mueller's Macaroni, a bubbling master of ceremonies asked some small children to imitate animals...