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...really a "color story" rather than the melodrama which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props of metropolitan melodrama as a slain chorus girl, a gimlet-eyed detective on the wrong track. Linden gulps so hard throughout Big City...
...members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore in a paper blizzard. His roommate grabs his pajamas for a souvenir. A manager (Walter Catlett) makes him read effusive speeches to women's banquets. He has to listen to a song called "Scotty Boy" written about himself. As in the case of Lindbergh, there seems to be an estrangement between the hero and his mother, in this case caused by her excessive enthusiasm for his valor...
Four perished at Catlett, Va. At Brookville, Md., a 300-year-old stone house lost its roof in a gale, crushing out the life of an 88-year-old woman...
...also, one especially able assistant: Walter Catlett speaks of a "sunken garden for fallen women," and when comparing a watch with a sun dial, he speaks of "old Sol and Ingersol" with fetching apologia...
Colonial--"Lady Be Good", with the Astaires and Walter Catlett...