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...Hope, who flew 16,000 miles on his Alaska junket, took along Jerry ("Mustache") Colonna and Singer Frances Langford. "They never went rough on Frances," he said. "But a few of them took a look at her and wept in their hands." He added: "I guess you can take care of sex with saltpeter. But you can't keep a man from reading his mother into any girl who shows up in a spot like that...
...Corsican Brothers (Small; United Artists) are (both of them) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who has yet to make up his mind who he is: his father, or Ronald Colman. They are also the offspring of Alexandre Dumas. Their eventual defeat of Baron Colonna (Akim Tamiroff), who slew their parents, is accomplished with heavyhanded, uninspired direction and all the corny hokum that accompanies the routine Hollywood romantic picture...
Obviously, this kind of unfairness cannot go on forever. Lucien dies in the tenth reel, after the reunited brothers have toppled Colonna. The remaining half of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. lives on to win the girl and mouth such Shakespeareanisms as: "With love's light wings do I o'erperch these walls." But he doesn't perch the way his father...
Equally stony-eyed was Italian Ambassador Prince Ascanio Colonna. When he stepped out of Political Adviser James Dunn's office, and into the elevator, photographers backed him against the wall, flashed closeups. Said Colonna: "I have delivered nothing. I came to inquire." (Commented the gum-chewing, irrepressible New York Daily News: "Okay, Prince, goombye please...
...GREATEST CELEBRATION OF ITS KIND EVER IN DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS BUT THEY WERE DIXON'S INVITATIONS AND DIXON SET THE DATE MANY MONTHS AGO AND WITH NO INKLING THAT IT INTERFERED WITH THE MILWAUKEE CONVENTION. SO FAR AS DIXON IS CONCERNED, NO REVELRY WAS RUINED. BOB HOPE AND JERRY COLONNA WERE AMONG THOSE WHO MADE BOTH DATES. ASK THEM IF ANYTHING RUINED THE REVELRY IN EITHER SPOT...