Word: urchins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his father. The scenes between the mother and the father, played by Martha Sleeper and Shepperd Strudwick, and between the boy and each of his parents are very effective. All three of the principals are excellent, particularly the boy, Richard Tyler, who may be remembered as the urchin who boxed with Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells of St. Mary's," and Hart has fashioned for them some very warm and very moving scenes. The last scene between the boy and his mother is perhaps the finest dramatic scene Hart has ever written...
...hand and a curse on our lips. The "Light," so called, obviously minus his collegiate and Roget's Thesaurus is forced to rely on pilfered phrases such as "peasant," borrowed from those he seeks to persecute. These cowardly and poorly-rhymed attacks on our person by this word starved urchin of the Missouri wastelands are designed only to throw the spotlight of ridicule upon us, thus freeing the richly deserving J. Bernard Mathes, whose unshaven face grins stupidly before us daily, of that oblivion. Julian is so cheap, incidentally, he makes out P.V.'s for his subway fare--when...
Convinced that a parish is made of people, rather than of bricks, Father Schlueter always opened St. Luke's door with an equal welcome - for the dirtiest urchin, the haughtiest dowager, the most troubled atheist. He turned his big Connecticut farm into a camp for poor children, and the neighborhood toughs, beginning to suspect their own toughness, went off and spent whole summers there. His study became familiar to hundreds, for he had a knack for easing people's troubles...
Each Fridolinons is rich in chorines, costumes, tunes. But what draws the crowd is Author-Producer-Monologuist Fridolin himself. The grubby get-up expresses one side of Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls he can never win. The slingshot expresses the other half of his appeal - the impudent nose-thumber who (at Bob Hope speed) lets fly at bingo, dance bands, radio advertising, women in war plants - and the Mackenzie King Government...
...upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...