Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wee ones huddle together In time for the evening scare To chill their juvenile marrow And curl their innocent hair...
Jazz Concert at Eddie Condon's (Decca, 8 sides) New 52nd Street Jazz (Victor, 8 sides). Condon's old guard (Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield, Pee Wee Russell and others) doggedly play The Sheik of Araby, Atlanta Blues, etc., Chicago style, circa 1928. The initiated will prefer it to Dizzy Gillespie's "bebopping" in the 52nd Street album...
...considerable skill, plays an Irish orphan who has the monumental task of softening up three wealthy, crotchety old men (Banker Edward Arnold, Doctor Lionel Barrymore, Judge Lewis Stone). She owns a piece of property containing an ancient oak tree, which happens to be the home of her friends, the Wee People. Her three selfish, unimaginative guardians want to get rid of the property, uproot the tree. And dispossess the pixies? Not as long as Margaret and her sweet old drunken manservant (Thomas Mitchell) can prevent...
...critics like it so much? Probably because its superior dialogue, a funny butler and housekeeper, and an ending full of style, taste, and charm won them over in the wee hours of the morning. But making a bad movie with good minor features and clever dialogue is like making sour apple sauce including just one good apple...
...Just a wee one, we trust...