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...Bank Dick (Universal) is the long-awaited reward for followers of cob-nosed Comedian W. C. Fields. The reward is the more rewarding because his recent pictures were impeded by the disconcerting presence of irrelevant comics. In this one, the Sultan of Sloth finally achieves the kind of delightful outrage which has made his fan list long & faithful. There are 74 minutes of almost clear Fields-as much a one-man show as the fences of cinema formula will allow...
...like your Anthropology on the cob, you can go to the Peabody Museum to see a special Thanksgiving week exhibit of "the origins and spread of Indian corn and its effect on the social and religious life of the American natives...
...when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...
FIELDS FOR PRESIDENT-W. C. Fields - Dodd, Meod ($1.50). Cob-nosed W. C. Fields, with his marvelous sense of timing, here throws his hat in the Presidential ring and leaps on the stump, in one motion. He does not indulge much or effectively in the Will Rogers type of political ribbing; instead, he maunders on about a vaudeville seal, a cornet rendition of The Whistler and His Dog, drops useful hints on bodybuilding, the care of babies. Even without the Fields voice and the Fields mannerisms, the Fields pen shows a delicate sense of U. S. language. The book contains...
...Bald, cob-nosed Designer Teague has been beautifying machine-age gadgets ever since 1928, when Eastman Kodak Co. hired him to spiffy up its then drab-looking cameras. From cameras. Teague went on to magnifying glasses, mirrors, telescopes, binoculars. Steuben glassware...