Word: pleasantness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Alice Faye and Betty Grable are a tough-to-beat combination, especially when they have a half-dozen good tunes to plug. Of course the pleasant renditions of the leading ladies make them as good as new. Jack Oakie helps the show along with some skillful bits of light comedy and Esther Ralston, who was a star about half the length of time ago that the songs were hits, makes a short but sensational appearance. The plot is much older than the songs, but it is unimportant...
...Never punish a child by putting him to bed. (Bed should be pleasant...
...annals of U. S. song. His previous rummages have covered popular music from early Stephen Foster days to latest Irving Berlin. Tin Pan Alley, going to no extremes in either history or histrionics, merely parenthesizes a few years before and during World War I, punctuates them with such pleasant oldtime numbers as Moonlight Bay, K-K-K-Katy. A few anachronisms like Honeysuckle Rose and The Sheik of Araby are also thrown in, on the Hollywood theory that anything older than Who is so far back nobody will care in what year it was written...
...nicely formed story, characters drawn with delicate authority, sharp, evocative vignettes of Virginia living & landscape. The whole work has the well-made, healthful, sober clarity of a Dutch interior. And like many unexceptionable people who inspire neither more nor less than respect, Sapphira is not too dull to be pleasant reading...
...essayist. "Yes, it is true, no poet will ever be able to say [of the married man] as the poets say of the crafty Ulysses that he saw many cities of men . . . but the question is whether he would not have learned just as many things and just as pleasant if he had stayed at home with Penelope...