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...That's My Baby (Universal-International) is strictly seersucker cinema with one eye on the hot-weather box-office and the other on the football season. Its five gridiron heroes, headed by a gangling quarterback (Donald O'Connor) are ex-G.I. students who are also henpecked husbands and harassed fathers. Their five wives, captained by Gloria De Haven, are all psychology students determined to reduce their husbands to baby burpers and dishwashers. The obvious problem, in due course obviously solved: Who is going to carry the ball for the glory of dear old Granger...
...England, and, with Victor, Columbia, Decca et al. catching up fast, she was about to do likewise in the U.S. Leading Britain's hit parade for the sixth week was a simple little ditty bringing the story up to date. Lyricist Tommie (Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree) Connor, who had written a set of words for an English version of the original Lilli song, had figured that most of her wartime admirers were back home with wives of their own; so, with Songsmith Johnny Reine providing matrimonial music, he had made an honest woman of her too. Sample from...
Elena O'Connor ran to her husband, clung to him so desperately that she was dragged along with the men to the miners' union hall. Before long, 14 other engineers and foremen, including six U.S. citizens, were brought to the hall. The kidnaping of the engineers was part of a plan to force the return of Mine Union Boss Juan Lechin, who had been banished to Chile along with 19 of his aides on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government...
Some of the miners wanted to kill their captives. Mrs. O'Connor stood on a chair, tried to convince the miners that the foremen were not responsible for Lechin's banishment. She got nowhere...
Rifles & Dynamite. As she was talking, a miner aimed a gun at her from a window outside. Her husband rushed to protect her; a bullet stopped him. Other miners fired; Tom O'Connor got 42 bullets in his body, was battered to a pulp with iron bars. U.S. Engineer Albert Krefting was also killed; Mrs. O'Connor was badly mauled before she escaped...