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...most brilliant men ever graduated from Princeton (1903), Paxton Hibben had successive exciting careers in diplomacy, politics, war correspondence, the A. E. F., post-War famine relief, authorship (Constantine I and the Greek People, Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, An American Report on the Russian Famine). A lifelong liberal, he requested that his ashes be taken to Moscow. Following his death in Manhattan in 1928, they were...
...press, liberal and conservative, entered indignant protest against Terre Haute's blatant violation of the Constitutional Bill of Rights. For such critics, Terre Haute's Republican Mayor Sam Beecher was ready with an answer. Said he: "Both of the major party Presidential candidates-Mr. Landon and Mr. Roosevelt-recognize Communism as a menace to this nation. Therefore, Communistic speakers are not welcome in Terre Haute...
...Love Before Breakfast," is as crazy as its title, but is more than averagely amusing. Preston Foster crashes through with a lot of fast comebacks to make up for the merely average performance of Carole Lombard. Janet Beecher as Carole's mother does an excellent job with her tempestuous daughter who is in love with Cesare Romero. Romero plays his usual greasy part and the whole audience is happier when Foster and his millions save the heroine from a sloppy marriage...
Margaret Sullavan contributes her most outstanding role in an outstanding. If relatively short career, as a charming and rather giddy Southern belle metamorphosed into a fine character by many sorrows. Walter Connelly and Janet Beecher as her father and mother share honors only with Margaret Sullavan. And even Randolph Scott, under inspired direction, makes the role of the pacifist convincing. "So Red the Rose" is genuinely worth seeing...
...spirit of the womenfolk, slaves insurrections, and the war's repercussions on the home, Margaret Sulivan contributes her most outstanding, role in an outstanding, if relatively short career, as a charming and rather giddy Southern belle metamorphosed into a fine character by many sorrows. Walter Connolly and Janet Beecher as her father and mother share honors only with Margaret Sulivan. And over Randolph Scott, under inspired direction, makes the role of the pacifist convincing. "So Red the Rose" is worth seeing not only because it has fine actors, is ably directed and beautifully photographed, but, more important, because it grapples...