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With a threadbare story and a total lack of spectacular sunsets, or five-minute chases, Carol Red and his crew have filmed twenty-four hours of a lost cause with the realistic effort of a smack in the face. The dialogue bears the dewey stamp of the auld sod; the characterizations are revealing without being talkative; and the scenes are put together to make sense, not to elicit sentiment. The widely varied personages are portrayed with a concentration of acting that make each distinctive. The film strains the emotions, but, thanks to British restraint, net the imagination...
Clarence Day Sr., impersonated by 16 actors while attracting 3,263,630 theatergoers, finally ran out of breath; Life with Father closed after a world's record run of 3,213 consecutive Broadway performances. At the final curtain the audience and cast reverently sang Auld Lang Syne. Actors wept in their dressing rooms (only one had another job lined up). An ex-member of the cast failed to spread much cheer with a telegram: "HEAR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY GOES NEXT...
...dozen floats run up by various groups during the evening. At midnight the lights in the hall went out and blue spots played down dramatically from the four corners of the hall onto the phoenix, whose wings began flapping while its green eyes blazed. As the band played Auld Lang Syne, Big Ben's chimes were piped over the loudspeakers. Onto the crowded floor marched a file of Irish bagpipers, each playing a different tune, and followed cacophonously by a swaying, cheering chain of drunks. Several floats joined the procession, but only one created much impression. It carried, along...
...from the audience. Once, midway through a song, he doubled up with a great belly laugh. "You won't believe this," he howled, "but a little girl in the third row is looking at me through binoculars." At the end of this zany, record performance, the audience sang Auld Lang Syne...
Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. said: "All good things must come to an end. . . ." Erect and sad, he handed his beloved Third Army flag to his successor in command, Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a General who had fought with his mouth closed. The band played Auld Lang Syne. Some 400 soldiers and WACs, also erect and sad, watched him march stiffly away...