Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Shore oystermen, fishermen, farmers, who track the muck of river bottoms into her dim-lit office on the town's main street, she is "Miss Mollie." Some of them can remember when Miss Mollie used to give them candy in an envelope if there was no mail for them. In a town renowned for apocryphal anecdote, dignified little Miss Mollie has the rare distinction of figuring in none...
...Smith Goes to Washington (Columbia). Last week U. S. audiences, smiling in anticipation, trooped into movie houses to see smart Director Frank Capra repeat his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in a Boy Scout uniform and a Senator's ten-gallon hat. What they saw was just as funny as Mr. Deeds, but it did not leave them smiling...
...crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...
This new Capra fable is as whimsical, the Capra directing as slick, the script as fast and funny as in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The acting of the brilliant cast is sometimes superb. But Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is bigger than any of these things. Its real hero is not calfy Jeff Smith, but the things he believes, as embodied in the hero of U. S. democracy's first crisis, Abraham Lincoln. Its big moment is not the melodramatic windup, but when Jefferson Smith stands gawking in the Lincoln Memorial, listening to a small boy read from...
...painting . . . which has announced the beginning of a distinctly American style." Editor Boswell makes the eagle scream louder, says contemporary U. S. painting is "bred of politico-economic nationalism and the concurrent resentment against the high-pressure dumping of inferior foreign art on the home market." His small-town merchant advice: "Patronize your local art exhibitions...