Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eddie Cantor has turned up some strange talent on his radio shows, but none is much worse than little Bobby Breen, his romantic singing youngster. Filmed in a horse-and-buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...
...This composition is frankly descriptive. I have wanted to capture something of what lies behind the inscrutable Indian visage; capture the whole rainbow, the arc of their savage grief, their martial fire, their craving for sun and space...
...landed he went and hung out his shingle. Wrote Lawyer "Richard Roe" from "somewhere in the Adirondacks": "I have been here almost one and one-half years and have earned a comfortable living. . . . During the fall I spend much time hunting deer and bear. In the summertime fishing for rainbow and brown trout, swimming and playing ball ... are some of my many enjoyments. ... I was initiated to the delights of square dancing and old-fashioned games...
...silver roses of Lippe-Biesterfeld, her train 18 feet long carried by four chil dren, and her sash of orange blossoms sent by loyal Dutchmen who grow oranges in Italy. The twelve bridesmaids were in six pairs, each pair dressed in a differing pastel color to produce a soft "rainbow effect" desired by the Crown Princess. She tripped over a cushion just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there is no altar in a Dutch church - but Prince Bernhard kept his bride from falling, and later, when a diamond bracelet fell...
...tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts her to go South and investigate. Compared on points, Waif Ching-Ching comes out considerably ahead of Waif Ainsworth. Compared as pictures, Stowaway comes out ahead of Rainbow on the River, which is still considerably above average for its genre. Good shot: small Ainsworth, grudgingly allowed to attend his cousin's birthday party, fascinating her guests with his cage of dancing mice...