Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours later President Roosevelt descended from his private car in the streets of Warm Springs, Ga. Henry N. Hooper, manager of the Warm Springs Foundation, was on hand to welcome him. A CCC band struck up a tune, and the President drove off accompanied by his personal secretaries Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand and Grace Tully, past the Foundation where crippled children were lined up in wheelchairs to wave to him, on up the road to the Little White House on the slopes of Pine Mountain where Daisy McAffee was cooking his dinner...
...whole show suffers from this undertone of aimlessness. Suddenly a large globe begins to jerk around on its axis to the tune of some languorous melody, and the audience is borne away to Casinario, a tiny country clinging to the coast of some as yet undiscovered continent. The state is named after its central institution, the Casino. When the roulette wheel stops spinning and depression stalks the land, an S. O. S. is sent to the Last Billionaire, a native son named M. Banco...
...chief's plea for bigger & better lending. "Since real estate is the basis of all wealth and industry the most essential factor in employment," pleaded Mr. Jones, "these should have, to a reasonable and safe extent, favored treatment by banks in making loans." The bankers had heard that tune before from Jesse Jones, and when he finished his address, the RF Chairman grinned, drawling...
Three dance tunes in the show are definite hits. "Life Begins at Sweet Sixteen," "Anything Can Happen," and "I'm the Fellow Who Loves You," with music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Jack Yellen, are catcy, have a first-rate swing to them. "Cigarette" and "May I Have My Gloves," are good plugs of the "Cocktails for Two" variety. "Pied Piper of Harlem" is hot but not very original. "Boondoggling" is the cleverest thing in the show, has a nice tune...
Consequently, the story on the screen had to be in tune with our imagination. It had to satisfy our conceptions of these two men and yet possess actual reality. Since it accomplished this, we are thinking of attending "Mutiny on the Bounty" several times...