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Good sequence: Dr. Abbott, when his adopted daughter's boy friend accidentally shoots her in the arm, using the incident to blackmail the boy's stingy father into giving Westport a hospital...
Opening with a shot of the funeral of Dr. John Abbott in the little midwest town of Westport, A Man to Remember shifts quickly to the office where Abbott's lawyer is examining his papers, then proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from...
...minutes, 13 4-5 seconds. Second was Robert Jay of Harvard, who lost in a final hundred-yard spurt with Igo. The first ten Freshman finishers are James Igo (BU), Robert Jay (H), George Byrom (BU), John Sopka (H), William Dias (H), Charles Robins (H), W.H. Young (H), Abbott Fenn (H), Tom McElligott (H), Richard Herlihy...
That even the ridiculous has a limit is proved by the latest farce of the Marx brothers, "Room Service," an exact copy of the George Abbott stage production of the same name. The boys do not seem at home with their gags; the timing misses, the efforts used to get laughs are often strained. There is no hilarious sequence like that of the stateroom in "A Night at the Opera." In truth, the brothers seem awed by the fact that they are in a picture bought, not built, for their talents...
...After Abbott disposed of Chapman, and Turnesa eliminated Kingsley, Ellsworth Vines found himself basking in the fame of his traveling companion, who had theretofore been a comparative unknown in spite of the fact that he had won the National Public Links championship two years ago. The gallery of 3,000, who turned out for the final, made "Little Willie" the sentimental favorite. They all knew that he was the son of an Italian greenskeeper, that his six brothers had chipped in to put him through Holy Cross, insisted that he become a gentleman golfer and made him remain an amateur...