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...holds up his farcical end. Robert Benchley is still Hollywood's most reliable ban vivant, though Cecil Kellaway, as the alcoholic old warlock, gives him unctuous competition. Veronica Lake, with a voice like a hoarse clarinet, makes a bewitching witch, scarcely taller (5 ft. 2 in.) than the broom she hexes. Rene Clair lets Thome Smith have his amiable way much of the time (good line from Witch Lake: "Ever hear of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? That was our crowd"). But Clair's shrewish fiancée is a malicious description...
Desperadoes. In Sebring, Fla., five women prisoners belabored the county jailer with a broom, made a clean getaway...
...blind of New Orleans, who use cane for broom-making, will parade this week with signs reading: "We need China. All our cane comes from China...
...biggest New Deal messes has been the housing program. The mess finally got so frightful that even Franklin Roosevelt, who can stand more clutter around him than most men, waved his arms and shouted for his chief housekeeper. Rotund little Judge Samuel Rosenman grabbed dustpan and broom and waded...
...Amazing Executive." With OEM's Wayne Coy holding the dustpan, Judge Rosenman went to work with his broom. In spite of the gestures of hydra-handed Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones (among many other things, administrator of housing loans), the Judge swept up the 16 Federal agencies. Mr. Roosevelt announced last week that the mess was cleaned...