Word: heather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find motion pictures in which people talk and look and act just as they should. "The Little Minister" is one of them. Katherine Hepburn does the completely ingenuous ex-Gypsy girl, who wins over the young curate, with a burr in her voice and a freshness that trails heather and high hills. John Beal is carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail that only one similar movie, "Great Expectations," has recently equalled. Max Steiner, who is still going strong at this sort of thing...
...semicircle of chairs, amid banked roses, heather and myrtle in the Palace music room, sat the family, a handful of old retainers, a sprinkling of ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and the godparents. Resplendent in gold cope and miter before a silver-gilt font, the Archbishop of Canterbury reached out gingerly to take the baby, swathed in four yards of silk and Honiton lace...
...spare time, Saxon borrows the shirt off his writer's back, lies about his mistress (Audrey Totter) to ruin her prospects in Hollywood, pretends to love his ex-wife (Heather Angel) until he finds it unprofitable...
Edmund Gwenn, veteran character actor that he is, gets the freest of reins in this innocuous little film--and he overacts his way magnificently through the role of an irascible old Scottish sheepherder, soaked in Scotch and fighting a losing battle with a heather-clogged accent. Plot concerns a couple of rival dogs, the annual sheepherding trials, and dastardly murders (of sheep) by one of the aforementioned canines...
Last week, Mackenzie King sailed for home. With him he carried a handful of confetti he had scooped up after the wedding, and a bunch of white heather that had been given him and the other guests at the wedding breakfast. Said the London News Chronicle as Godspeed: ". . . In a world starved of American currency . . . there is little we can do to help Canada at the moment. But at least we can take the occasion of Mr. Mackenzie King's presence in London to acknowledge our great debt, and to reaffirm that nothing shall be left undone which might...