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Metro and Paramount are the most frequent employers of Technicolor. Universal's dabblings, in this case at any rate, descend to color per so. In black-and-white, "Can't Help Singing" would be nothing. Even with Color, music by Jerome Kern, and stiff, conventional acting by Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige, it represents the lowest in a painfully low series...
...biggest news around here--that is, besides Boegie Campbell's new girl friend--is the Drexler nuptials, to be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow. Alack and alas, big Fred is going to leave the happy ranks of us bachelors and descend into the arena of marital strife. No more staying out nights; no more staying after 1600; no more money. But I suppose there must be compensations. Anyway, all are invited to the ceremony which is being held at the Chapel in Hahvud Yaad. Bill Cousins is going to be best man and is selling tickets good...
...from a Statler dance, a political rally or a premiere movie, to the Bali dance routine Chief Pearson puts us through on a Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
...them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands, one for the baby, the other carrying soap, sponge and nailbrush; the baby was washed simply by revolving the stands in opposite directions. Another convenience was a bedroom directly over a dining room so rigged that the owner could descend through the floor into a dining chair while, simultaneously, the cover over the bacon & eggs ascended to the ceiling...
Iron mines had either been blown up or flooded. In the old Artem mine, 500 Russian workers hid. When the Germans discovered the hideout, they flung hand grenades in but would not descend. Moscow said another mine was the common grave of 17,000 executed civilians...