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Blessed with the superb raw material of what this reviewer considers one of the best comedy teams on record, Paramount has whipped up a drawn-out melange of corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...
...three famous South Africans: Lobengula, last King of the Matabele; Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger, last President of the South African Republic ; Cecil John Rhodes, uncrowned king of the world of gold and diamonds. As history, it is a dramatic study of the beginnings of a long, drawn-out and bitter struggle for power over the last of the great open spaces...
Dispatches from a neutral source of the German frontier pointed out an apt historical parallel: Kaiser Wilhelm II's celebrated meeting with his Crown Council in August 1918, when the German war lords of that day decided that bitter, drawn-out fighting might yet weary the Allies into granting a soft peace...
...precedent-smashing decision climaxed a drawn-out battle between the Hope Natural Gas Co. (subsidiary of Standard Oil of N.J. until a month ago) and the Federal Power Commission. In 1938 the cities of Akron and Cleveland touched off the fight with a demand that the Hope Co. cut its rates. When it refused, they appealed...
These June nights, when the drawn-out whistle of the steam engine streaking across Kansas sets the farmer's dog a-barking, or when valley dwellers hear her coming round the mountain with brakes on after the two-engined chuff up the Continental Divide, like as not the long string of cars will be sleepers-Pullmans full of soldiers, destination and route secret...