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Warner Brothers' musical extravaganza "Gold Diggers of 1935" featuring the infectious Dick Powell, and supported by a host of Hollywood's funniest comedians, is a worthy successor to the 1933 and 1934 hits of the same name. It is light, airy, and debonair. Judging from the response of the audience, the picture took...
Kokomo's most picturesque politician is Olin R. Holt, a thickset, debonair bachelor of 39 who wears horn-rimmed glasses and dresses to the nines. In 1924 he was out for Indiana's Governorship with Ku Klux Klan support. Denied the Democratic nomination, he returned home to cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal...
Leading lady is witty, torch-singing Ethel Merman, whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club...
...dapper, debonair Tugwell asserted that he was a real dirt farmer albeit the soil on his shoes came from an early morning stroll through his apple orchard and this week, Washington's No. 1 man, Richberg reveals he is a born conservative, dyed in the purple and to the manor bern. Meanwhile the sudden change fro m "End Poverty," to "End Prosperity," in Sinclair's slogan for California has resulted in a rebuff from Roosevelt which materially damages that picturesque purveyor of political panaceas' chances of election. An entertaining spectacle this, in all its ironic humor, but pertinent to this...
Blackie Gallagher was the most engaging screen gangster to come out of Hollywood since Little Caesar. Gay, ruthless. debonair, he rose from guttersnipe to big-shot with swashbuckling bravado, killing in cold blood all who opposed him. Finally the Law caught Blackie Gallagher, marched him to the electric chair...