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...beginning, he had fetched far less: as a tyro with a Welsh burr, he had covered smoke-hall concerts in Brighton for 25 shillings a week. He got his fill of spot news and close calls in the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese war. In his day he had run the Manila Times, worked for Hearst and Pulitzer and-luckily-for George Creel at the World War I Peace Conference. Lord Northcliffe, then in control of the London Times, hired him at Versailles for the Washington...
...Adams was President of the United States and Philadelphia was something more than a lengthy stop on the Congressional Limited run. The result is a triangle--not the scheme of the researchers, of course--involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively meek Madison inherits the landlady, later to become immortalized in song and story under the somewhat shady epithet of "Dolly...
David Niven, a thin, sprightly Englishman, plays Aaron Burr, and although he does not carry a label of the variety commonly employed by political cartoonists, he is easily recognizable as the scoundrel. Burgess Meredith, as "Father of the Constitution" and name-giver to a high school in Brooklyn, does the only reasonable...
...When her husband, child and father are killed off in a yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
...Burr (who was actually married and a father at the time),seems to have the inside track until the lady begins to feel the first faint stirrings of political consciousness. Then she recognizes egocentric Senator Burr as the symbol of anti-democratic thinking. Madison, on the other hand, suddenly personifies not only the Will-of-the-People but also True Love. As the wife of Secretary of State Madison, Dolly (Ginger), looking far too regal ever to have been Fred Astaire's hoofing partner, sweeps into the White House to act as widower President Jefferson's official hostess...