Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back with his unit, he goes through a process of selection and weeding, in search of his aptitude. The adjustment to Army life is difficult; and his own quirks must be ironed out. If he misses a sweetheart or newlywed wife, he is given some good hard labor to sweat his affection out on. If he is homesick he is granted frequent furloughs. If he is a recluse, he is trained in community spirit and team play...
After a Saturday-night singer decides which part he wants to sing-First Tenor, Second Tenor, First Bass, Second Bass-he plays a 75? disc. On one side his part in Sweet Adeline, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and In the Evening by the Moonlight is sung solo; on the other the songs are let loose by a professional quartet, in which the amateur joins...
...rear-guard action against a benign monarchy of wealth is deliciously overwhelmed by her munitions-making father (Robert Morley), her agnostic sweetheart (Rex Harrison, George VI's double), and especially by an unreconstructible ruffian (Robert Newton), who very nearly runs away with the picture...
...with music had been issued previously to bandsmen, reserve officers who had experience in group singing, and the soldiers themselves (one copy to groups of 50 men). Of the 67 songs, most were as familiar to civilians as they were to soldiers (The Last Roundup, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Star-Spangled Banner, Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses...
...time, in a tight shingle bob, she is back with a bang as Sandra Kovac, a temperamental concert pianist* with a touch of siren. The overtones of her villainous role begin to sound, sometimes a little nasally, from the time she snatches Maggie's (Bette Davis) rollicking, playboy sweetheart, Pete (George Brent), and marries him in an alcoholic spree. When it is discovered that they have to do it again because Sandra got her divorce decree dates mixed, Maggie snatches Pete back, this time salting him legally away...