Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the years, as Mackenzie King had plodded past Sir John A. Macdonald's Canadian record of 18 years, 11 months and 26 days as Prime Minister, and Sir Robert Walpole's British Empire record of 20 years, 10 months and 10 days (TIME, May 3), M.P.s had eulogized him many times. Last week, at his last parliamentary milestone, there was nothing left to say. While the House went on with its business, the Prime Minister sat at his desk, staring blankly at the rows of empty seats. After a giant yawn, just before the session...
...women graduates out-read the men by a wide margin, at least as far as bestsellers are concerned. Last year's far-&-away favorite (read by 48.1% of the men and 72% of the women) was Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I. Most-read magazines of both sexes, in order: Reader's Digest (46.5%), LIFE (42%), TIME...
...screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop...
Like most such pseudo-bucolic rubbish about simple folk, this one has only the very transient virtue of being in fashion. It was a mistake to waste, on such a story, the brusque, noble backgrounds (the Scottish island of Skye) and the honest abilities of Director David MacDonald, who had the controlling hand in making Desert Victory, one of the first really excellent war documentaries...
...Jayvee players: Ripley, Claflin, Manley, Lawrence, Carroll, MacDonald, Olney, Fuller, Reiner, Scanlan, Gross, Davis, Bennett, Spence, Birdsall, Richards, Hatch, Harrington...