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...Minister of Information and then as Minister of Transport, was tossed a baronetage and for equally inexplicable reasons named to a new post as Minister of Works and Public Buildings, charged with the eventual rebuilding of London. In as new Minister of Transport went sporty Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, holder of the Royal Aero Club's No. 1 flying certificate, twice Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Ministry, who is known around his greyhound racing tracks (in 1937 they paid 40% dividends) as "Brab...
...gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard. Flower Belle's throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes a goat for herself in the nuptial chamber when she finds...
...Cuthbert J. Twillie is first-rate W. C. Fields' clowning, which is proof enough that one of the coolest heads in show business surmounts Cinemactress West's opulent curves. For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan. She let Funnyman Fields write in his own part, ad lib to his heart's content. Best ad lib was carefully excised from the picture. Murmured Fields one day to the goat which he mistakes for Flower Belle: "Darling, have...
...Cook to his Somerset parish: "In St. Cuthbert's, at least, there will be no war talks from the pulpit...
Amusements. Thirteen Tory M.P.s hold directorships in companies operating cinemas, theatres, race tracks. Typical is Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 55-year-old aviation enthusiast, a director of Greyhound Racing Association Trust Ltd., which owns tracks in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, paid 40% dividends last year...