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...product off the U.S. market--plots to make war on America, lose, and, as is customary with vanquished U.S. foes, be economically rehabilitated. The triad of hereditary rulers who run Grand Fenwick--creaking and Victorianesque Grand Duchess Glorianna, imperious Prime Minister Montjoy, and meek but good Tully Bascomb, a combination game warden and defense minister--are all played skillfully by Peter Sellers...
...cartoonist who earns $50,000 a year by illustrating an American homily of good-humored resignation: "Grin and Bear It." In his satirical, topical "Grin and Bear It" cartoon, which runs in more than 270 U.S. dailies. Cartoonist "Lichty" has created such harried, irascible characters as potbellied, spindle-legged Bascomb Belchmore. Senator Snort, Mr. Snodgrass, and a diabolical moppet named Otis. They are inevitably trapped in ridiculous situations of their own making. In one cartoon Senator Snort, .dressed in flowered waistcoat and bat-winged collar, tells a group of reporters: "I welcome any inquiry into my program for a foreign...
...Bascomb (MGM) presents Great Muggers Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien in a fight to the finish. She leads him into paths of righteousness; he in turn leads a band of Mormons towards the Promised Land. Histrionically, the battle is a draw. Typical O'Brien low-blow: "Why does your nose run when your feet get wet? Your feet don't run when your nose gets wet." Typical Beery haymaker: bulging the screen full of a face as massively seamed as a relief map. There is also an Indian raid, during which Miss O'Brien routs...
...performed every other duty in life-as a Christian woman and as a citizen of the U. S.- faithfully and honestly." Then the Government brought on its witnesses. Mr. Jameson testified that he had given $65,300 to the Bishop who was introduced to him by C. Bascomb Slemp. The Government attorney told the jury that the Bishop had said, "I destroyed all the correspondence I could lay my hands on so that anyone who delved into my affairs would find nothing. . . . I know that bunch down in Virginia." Trying to prove that there had never been
...waked up as well as bucked up. He stays to take his medicine. And when Dids goes off to college, Mrs. Bascomb finally focuses on the now pitiful, bedridden Lottie as a new object for the domineering energy and mother-love that was as much the cause as it is the cure of so much sorrow. The Significance. Dorothy Canfield has here achieved a magnificent demonstration of the literary maxim: "An author must be God to his characters." She has first caused, then seen, understood and clearly presented, everything these Bascombs think and feel and do and are. Good...