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...Bound to disappoint the admirers of Gypsy Rose Lee, whose sultry gifts are confined to such lines as "I'll cut your heart out and stuff it like an olive," You Can't Have Everything should satisfy almost everyone else. It gives the clowning Ritz Brothers the opportunity to extract the last zany twist from such sequences as playing a swing version of chopsticks, dressing as charwomen to break into the Y. W. C. A. To adept Song Pluggers Alice Faye and Tony Martin, Mack Gordon & Harry Revel have supplied a tiptop score of which the most singable...
Since this was printed, eight long years have passed. Trotsky has lived here and there in Europe, always kindling the flame of "Trotskyism" which is after all Communism. Today Trotsky is in Mexico- the ideal country for an assassination- and Stalin continues to disappoint the many Stalinists who continue to clamor for his extermination-but why should Stalin have Trotsky done away with...
...took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second or two for applause to come back. Everywhere local politicians were allowed to arrange so many meetings for Alf Landon that he could not possibly attend them all. In Grand Rapids he had to disappoint no less than three such gatherings...
...publicity and sympathy sure to accrue from such tactics, the No. 1 U. S. Red flashed off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates did not disappoint him, taking him and four companions in for "vagrancy" as soon as they stepped off the train. Enshrined in the county jail, Martyr Browder declaimed: "Our arrests today mark the complete suppression of all civil rights, aggravated by a political campaign. This is one of the many signs of Hitlerism in America...
...posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist of Bertie Wooster's dazed idolatry, Thank You Jeeves, though sure to disappoint Wodehouse addicts, is still a passably amusing farce. Sample dialog: When Bertie is trying to say that a young lady called at his flat and left without explaining why she had come: "She just popped in, popped around a bit and then popped out again...