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...Limit (RKO-Radio) whips Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie and Robert Benchley together with some other promising ingredients, then collapses into equal parts of mild pleasure and disappointment. Most cinemusicals are so large, loud and splendid that seeing one is like trying to eat a wedding cake singlehanded. The Sky's the Limit is rather short (89 minutes), rather unspectacular (there are no chorus numbers), rather quiet (three suave tunes...
...Cake-making Miss Smith has pleasantly seasoned her first novel-an old-fashioned family pudding of well-baked corn-with two simple and staple condiments: authentic recollections of childhood and a well-communicated respect for the endless valor of the poor...
Barbara Bel Geddes, 20-year-old daughter of the futuristic designer, nabbed a movie contract, promptly started off on the right leg. When photographers greeted her with a demand for cheese cake, she measured up to the occasion by producing...
...Road. In Raritan Township, N.J., William Schmoldt and his wife, proprietors of a roadside restaurant, had their waiter set up their coffee and cake snack in the middle of U.S. Route 1. No cars had come by the time they were ready for their second cup-if they could have had a second...
...Army had its 1,000th movie theater opened last fortnight-at Camp Hood, Tex. To celebrate the event, Army Motion Picture Service* Director R. B. Murray was given a surprise party with a monster ceremonial cake in Washington, D.C.'s Tower Building lobby. During World War I, soldier movies were provided by the War Department and welfare agencies. When the AMPS was founded in 1921 it had only "a woefully small sum of money ... a few buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico...