Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood's alarmingly large child actor population for an all-star effort, possibly on the lines of Grand Hotel in a day nursery, there is no chance for new discoveries in the well-explored terrain of plots for such performers. Central figures of both RKO's Rainbow on the River and Twentieth Century-Fox's Stowaway are, as usual, waifs doing as much good for themselves as possible and struggling hard to keep out of the orphanage...
...Rainbow on the River is a sentimental costume drama, dated 1875, in which the cinema's No. 1 boy soprano lifts his clear and bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...
There are 69 Democrats, only 22 Republicans in the present Senate. The pot of dreams at the end of the Republican rainbow was 1) to whittle down the Democratic majority this year, 2) whittle some more in 1938, 3) win a majority in 1940. Day after election it appeared that instead of whittling down the Democratic majority, the next Senate would have 73 Democrats, only 19 Republicans, one ex-Republican, two Farmer-Laborites, one Progressive...
Time hangs lightly on the Vagabond's hands. It dangles there, a flimsy rainbow bubble, catches the sun a moment and disappears...
...above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind...