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...Anybody Seen My Gal (Universal-International) is a movie with a moral: money is not necessarily conducive to happiness. This discovery is made by a dyspeptic and crotchety old multimillionaire (Charles Coburn) who forsakes his bank deposits to move in with a quaintly colorful small-town family, where he not only finds peace of mind but also wins first prize in a local art exhibit with one of his paintings...
...Anybody Seen My Gal is set in what is referred to as the Roaring Twenties, an era when, to judge from this picture, flappers in short skirts and college men in raccoon coats did little else but pour down bathtub gin, read Elinor Glyn's It, dance the Charleston, and indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic...
...last year it earned $63 million in dollar sales, more than any other single British manufacture.* The heart of the Scotch industry is Glenlivet, a potent, peat-smoky liquor which many U.S. Scotch fanciers have never heard of. Glenlivet is little known because 98½% of its 220,000-gal. annual output is siphoned off by big brand-name Scotch distillers, who use it to provide tang, bouquet and flavor to their own blends. Unlike other Scotch distillers, Glenlivet's owner, 56-year-old Captain William Henry Smith Grant, a kilted, decorated veteran of two wars,† never made...
...whisky market is now glutted: warehouses hold 900 million gals. of whisky, 80% more than ten years ago. Reason: many customers are buying less, or shifting to lighter drinks, because of stiff federal taxes on spirits, boosted last year from $9 a gal. to $10.50. At retail the price is still higher because venders add their normal markup (average 22%) to the tax itself* While the Big Four distillers (Schenley, National, Seagram's and Hiram Walker) insist that they will maintain prices, smaller distillers have already begun to cut prices of straight whiskies. Sample: United Distillers has slashed...
...Gal Sunday poses the question: Can a girl from the little mining town of Silver Creek, Colo, find happiness married to England's richest, most handsome peer, Lord Henry Brinthrope? Answer, after about 15 years...