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...Loew's State this week is a well rounded program featuring a satirical romance of Clarence Buddington Kelland called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," with an S.S. Van Dine thriller filling out the bill. In the first, a gem of pure wit in Kelland's best Satevepost style, Mr. Deeds is a country boy from Vermont whose uncle's death leaves him a fortune of twenty millions, complete with town house and a regiment of vassals from a major-domo to a pair of plug-ugly bodyguards. With a bank account that "will do in a pinch," he locks...
...finds himself with two other murders and what he considers a lovely girl (Virginia Bruce) on his hands before he is through. Yet in spite of a plot that confused our untrained mind, and a few stray remarks like "Elementary, m'dear Watson," which belong to Doyle, not Van Dine, the picture is a satisfactory piece, and rounds out an entertaining program...
...Cabinet entertained the President once a year at dinner. To save himself from putting on evening dress nine unnecessary times, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated the custom of letting the Cabinet give him one big joint dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly half an hour, the Cabinet finally...
...theatrical comeback. Though the plot creaks mildly in spots, the cracks of Jack Oakie, the dancing of Alice Faye, and several good songs ("I've Got My Fingers Crossed," "I'm Shooting High") manage to hold it together for the final embrace. But we would not care to dine in Warner's night club, with fifty trapeze girls soaring over our gin and ginger...
...dine on rare and costly fare...