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Annabelle's Affairs (Fox), taken from a play by Clare Kummer which Arthur Hopkins produced in Manhattan 14 years ago, will have an immoral influence, since it shows extravagance rewarded and makes insobriety seem an Arcadian adventure. Nonetheless, it is hilariously funny comedy of a sort rarely seen in cinema. It tells a story in which the chief characters are a scatter-brained girl (Jeannette MacDonald), her husband, who is a rowdy millionaire from Wyoming (Victor McLaglen), another millionaire who remains intoxicated (Roland Young), and the second millionaire's butler. The two millionaires are engaged in a wholly...
Kraft. James Louis Kraft began the Kraft business about 1906 when he drove a horse called "Paddy" and vended cheese to Chicago stores. Although the company has long passed that Arcadian state which "J. L." described as: "when everybody called everybody else by his first name- even the stenographers," valiant attempts are made to keep the organization highly Kraft-conscious. Much of this is done through the organ, Cheesekraft. A typical Kraft-talk by "J. L.": "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft...
...concerned with the outside world as it is with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew up, is of a similar unworldliness - perhaps a thought too Arcadian since the villagers oscillate between the modern vernacular and a strong resemblance to Hans the blacksmith, ; Schwartz the butcher and other such traditional creatures. But out of his acquaintance with real monks Mr. Shuster has wrought an atmosphere of which the charm is quite beyond cavil, even the well-nigh...
...purpose of the meeting is to lay out a "national outdoor recreation policy." Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt is Chairman of the Committee in charge. Messrs. Weeks, Work, Wallace and Hoover are Honorary Chairmen to lend prestige to the movement to lure the public to arcadian pleasures and rustic delights...
...whole. Its scenes are full of charm and delight and beauty, through which moves air extraordinary variety of real persons, most of whom accept the world at its face value and make the most of it. The materials of this tragedy are the materials of romance, almost Arcadian romance, in their detachment from difficulties and responsibilities and in their remoteness from city life...