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...home of the girl's aunt (Spring Byington) there is some touching domestic business (by Miss Byington, Shirley Temple and the accomplished Tom Tully)-memorably a Christmas supper at which everybody sings O Come, All Ye Faithful. There are also moments of franker pain and shock than most films dare to hand an audience without Boris Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A...
Equally important is the Libyan campaign from the Axis viewpoint, although Berlin has so far refused to admit that it is anything more than a local scrap. The Italians, however, have been much franker about the matter in confessing that the future of Italy depends upon the outcome in Africa. Strategically based planes could destroy Italian cities by night bombing expeditions and with the aid of the British navy they can send the Italian fleet off to Davy Jones private pool. But if the Germans refuse to admit the seriousness of the stakes in Africa their recent actions of forcing...
...Syracuse, Denver, St. Louis, Little Rock, Louisville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Springfield (Ill), Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, the local clergy seemed reasonably well pleased, but in many cases the franker ministers agreed with other civic leaders that from 80 to 90% of the audiences were more or less regular churchgoers, that the Mission failed to "reach the unreached," and that its principal value was to "give church people a shot...
...edge. Last week, in Age of Consent, he repeated his performance with another tale of a cautious lover and a willing lady. With several characters dead ringers for those of the earlier book, it might have seemed like too much repetition were it not that his story gets franker and funnier every time he tells...
When the round-faced, squat Prime Minister arrived in Washington he went to the Canadian Legation and saw the press before going to the White House-a procedure that allowed him to be franker with newshawks than if he had seen them afterward. To all suggested topics for discussion at the White House, he replied either that he might bring them up if the spirit moved him, or that he would be glad to discuss them if the President wished to. Only one small slip did he make. Forgetting for the moment that the New Deal has taken many emergency...