Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leonard Bernstein can hardly be called another Gershwin, but he is the closest thing to the great composer that America is likely to enjoy for a long time. The brilliant young prodigy goes from successes in the symphony "Jeremiah" and the ballet "Fancy Free" to an unspectacular but extremely arresting debut on the musical comedy stage...
...means without interest and a certain charm. Dr. Morton (Joel McCrea) is Sturges' least caricatured, most straightforwardly sympathetic hero to date. Some of the comedy, supplied chiefly and expertly by William Demarest (the picture is reduced largely to its comic episodes), is funny if you can enjoy laughter in contexts of physical misery. Some of the drama, supplied by McCrea, by Louis Jean Heidt as Horace Wells (who discovered the anesthetic possibilities of laughing gas) and by Harry Carey as Dr. Warren (who first used anesthesia for surgery), is firm, humane and moving...
Meet Me in St. Louis (M.G.M.) is a musical that even the deaf should enjoy. They will miss some attractive tunes like the sure-fire Trolley Song, the graceful Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, the sentimental You and I and the naively gay title waltz. But they can watch one of the year's prettiest pictures...
Last week, as FCC still mulled over the plan, the New York Times attacked it: "The pig whistle injects a poll tax on radio - the payment of a fee in order that the public might enjoy what is already free and their property - the air. This is hardly a liberal conception of the 'freedom to listen.' " This could open "the doors to a whole series of exclusive squeals, each representing a different fee to the listener...
...most thorough examinations yet of Johnson and his friends. His biography, jampacked with Johnsoniana, is no specialist's study: it is for the general reader, who may find parts of it?such as the chapters on Johnson as critic and philosopher?slowgoing. But he can hardly fail to enjoy the lovingly collected abundance of anecdotes and sayings which are Johnson's rightful claim to fame...