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...combination of Bill Mendrek and Dere we have little to say. They carry their scenes well, don't botch lines as Ruth Hermansen does, almost spoiling her otherwise well done job as the novel writer who sounds as though she might have written this play...
...Paulette is the fortune-teller, however, and she plays a double role: as the fortune-teller and as a gay young immigrant from Texas. Naturally, there's a third woman, a client of Mr. Milland (a counsellor whose clients are all beautiful women without trouble) and she tries to botch up matters between the two stars. This little vixen is disposed of in the usual manner and Miss Goddard and Mr. Milland live together happily ever after. What happens to Milland's business, where he gets all his gasoline, how his draft board feels about him are all disregarded. Handsome...
...limited to one a week, and fuller criticism, the personal touch so necessary to make a composition course tick, would bring water to the thirsty lips of floundering writers. And the three sections could be divided into three of similar interests and abilities instead of the present three-way botch...
...Germany's Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service of a Duce whom he once offered to crush as an upstart...
...prominent alumnus and former Lampoon editor yesterday expressed the general feeling of pity for the former cream of the college comics when he said, "It's too damn bad Lampy had to make such a botch of its first attempt to be socially conscious. The boys are young and inexperienced and should have known better than to try to compete with the Progressive...