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...staging over seen on the Sanders stage, and very probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Faced with enormous problems at every turn of one of Shaw's most ambitious scripts, the company created a masterpiece which carried the audience away and must have astounded even its most ardent backers...
...Franklin Roosevelt had no more bitter foe at home, he had no more ardent supporter abroad. Douglas was one of the first to warn against the rise of Hitlerism. He went back into Government service, first as Lend-Lease expediter in London, then as Deputy War Shipping Administrator. As London's News...
...while Joe was an ardent proselytizer for the Newspaper Guild, until he decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and stenographers in one union. He quit. The individualist Ball emerged in full flower...
...receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted Parliament's address of welcome, but even he was on hand at the state banquet. In a Cape Town park, a group of ardent anti-Britishers enjoying a barbecue apologized for their open shirts and rolled-up sleeves when ubiquitous Smuts suddenly appeared and introduced them to the King & Queen...
Those hardy few who stayed through until the second feature were amply rewarded by the usual volume of Red Skelton's antics and prat-falls. Unable to satisfy any but the most ardent fan by sheer weight of pantomime and well-timed gags, M.G.M. has wisely injected a bit of pathos into the comedy. Cast as a well-meaning, but deadly boor, Red Skelton takes "The Showoff" through a series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses...