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...dinner with the Churchills, lunch at Claridge's with 13 women M.P.s presided over by Lady Astor, lunch with handsome Anthony Eden, visited Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, discussed clothes rationing with Queen Elizabeth, who is having trouble with fast-growing Princess Elizabeth's coupons...
...from a parachute. He carried Mix through a blast of dynamite which knocked a hole in Tony's side. He developed social graces. He managed to keep a straight face when he was honored in the dining rooms of the Savoy in London, the Crillon in Paris, the Astor in Manhattan, and when he was given quarters in the check room of Detroit's Book Cadillac. Tom Mix used to boast gratefully that Tony had earned him more than any race horse in history. (Earnings of Whirlaway: $511,406; of Tom & Tony...
...plot. With Nomura's grin still pacifying Washington, Bogart tracks Jap saboteurs in a wild chase from Canada to Panama. Ships, lonely docks, subway pursuits, and airplanes are all standard paraphenalia to this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary Astor, as the girl who's always there when the shooting starts, is always attractive scenery. The fact that she can act with the best of a strong cast does not weaken the film. Sydney Green Street, hugely imposing, is the perfect villain of the piece. To say that he plays...
Said Lady Astor, U.S.-born M.P., at Cliveden: "I would not mind sitting on a platform with a Russian Communist, but I would not be seen dead with a British Communist." Snapped the London Daily Worker: "Lock her up." Cried U.S. Communist Earl Browder from a platform in Manhattan's Union Square: Open a second front now, for the United Nations' sake. Snapped the New York Times: "The silliest spectacle we have seen in a long time is that of American Communists . . . holding a mass meeting in Union Square to demand that the military strategy of the United...
...Crazy with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. This year James has broken every record on every job he has played. Examples: for San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater he grossed $41,000 in seven days (previous record was Sammy Kaye's $35,000); at Manhattan's Astor Roof he grossed 8,500 covers in one week, topping Tommy Dorsey's record by 600. The newest Jamesiana, a sentimental arrangement of the old / Cried for You, is a candidate for the best-seller lists...