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...musical from a whimsical little cream puff of a 1947 movie called Miracle on 34th Street. Stuck with an inebriated Santa, Macy's unwittingly hires the real Kris Kringle to handle the reins as Donder, Blitzen, et al., mush through the big Thanksgiving Day parade. Kris (Laurence Naismith) stays on for the holiday rush and he is a loving wonder at dandling the kids on his knee. There are minor complications, of course, like St. Nick's spending a day or two in the mental ward at Bellevue until his credentials...
Starring Janis Paige, Craig Stevens and Laurence Naismith, Here's Love is based on the film Miracle on 34th Street. Like Willson's The Music Man, it is a loud and frequently frenzied melding of sentiment and humor, more effective in its large production numbers than in any individual song. The plot involves a kindly Macy's Santa Claus who loves kids and gets so identified with his part that he sends them to Gimbels if Macy's doesn't have it. The Detroit Free Press's Louis Cook found it "joyful...
...Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers play it, Dr. Naismith would never recognize his game. Champions and challengers, East and West, old pros and ambitious upstarts, they are basketball's Hatnelds and McCoys. In nine games during the regular season, the Celtics won four, the Lakers five, and each time it was a kneeing, elbow-digging blood feud. The Celtics, perennial champions of the National Basketball Association, jeered at Laker talk that Los Angeles was the "basketball capital of the world." The Lakers called Boston a "bush town." Last week the two teams met again in the playoffs...
Pure Product. In almost every way, Cincinnati's Robertson is a pure product of the sport of basketball as it has developed in, the U.S. The game was invented in 1891 in Springfield, Mass, by a gym instructor named Jim Naismith, who wanted to give his bored classes a switch from the daily grind of calisthenics. Today basketball is played with eager enthusiasm and improving skill by some 50 nations from Chile to China, but it has remained a distinctly American game. Its virtues are obvious : any number can play, indoors or out, in all seasons. It requires nothing...
...Blackleg!" the shop steward (Bernard Lee) rages. The factory owner (Laurence Naismith), anxious to avoid unnecessary trouble with the union, is disgusted with him, too. When the strike ends, the men vote to send the hero to Coventry. Nobody speaks to him, nobody eats with him, nobody touches work he has touched. His best friend deserts him, his wife (Pier Angeli) gets hysterical, the company pressures him to climb down and apologize. The hero holds out, he hardly knows why. "If people can't be different," he mumbles bitterly, "there's no point...