Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...relatively accomplished pianist, and wrote everything from operettas to marches. He amazed his comrades by turning out three love songs--"I Think of You", "All the World Is in Love", and "Wonderful Glorious Spring...
...that he has a fatal disease and but a few weeks to live. Byrd has neither family nor friends to regret, only unfulfilled desires. He leaves all he has--his job--and resolves to spend a last holiday at an exclusive seaside hotel. There he is offered "influence, riches, love and kisses," none of which can be his. "The Last Holiday" has another and a last tragedy, an ending tense because of its substance and its sudden inevitability...
...comeback. With defensive lies, the husband convinces the director that the wife, who is his one chance of salvation, is the whole cause of his collapse. Seeing the wife as the enemy, the director mercilessly upbraids and insults her until he learns the truth (which includes his being in love with her). After that, the play dribbles on, nursing the sort of comeback that is trite on the stage and untenable...
...gifted at showing adolescent innocence than adult griminess. The book has appealing glimpses of camaraderie between an adolescent girl and a six-year-old boy, of young people carrying on their conversations through blocks of embarrassed silence, of a young girl expressing her innocent confidence that she can take love or leave it alone. ("It's all right to be in love, as long as you don't spend too much time at it.") Though a bit wobbly with grownup troubles, Elizabeth Pollet has a pretty sure hand when she turns to Paul and explores the world with...
...Walk Softly, Stranger" has less plot than a poor musical. Ostensibly, it is the tale of a gambler and petty thief who attempts to reform his life. After meeting the millionairess and developing the first symptoms of love, however, he is forced to team with one of his old buddies to pull one last job, a stickup of a gambling house. He is, of course, asking for it, and "it" almost catches up with him during the last reel. In the finale, he interrupts his now full-blown romance to spend three quiet years of atonement in prison...