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Broadway Melody of 1938 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Mrs. Caroline Whipple (Binnie Barnes), wife of a confection tycoon, owns a horse named Star Gazer, beloved by Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell) whose father bred him. With the horse, Manhattan-bound in a stockcar, Horsetrainers Sonny (George Murphy) and Peter (Buddy Ebsen) find Sally tucked up in the feed. A Manhattan playwright, Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor), whose show Caroline is backing, finances Sally's auction bid for Star Gazer, tries to cast her as his leading lady. Jealous, Caroline withdraws her backing. At this point only juvenile or feeble-minded members...
...leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when Will Rogers caroled Ta-rah-rah-boom-de-ay. Broadway Melody of 1938 is the first picture in which Miss Powell...
...election. A local paper sent a reporter to interview him. Although that region had always elected a Republican to Congress, Mr. Hurja told the reporter that the Democratic candidate would be elected by a majority of about 3,460 votes. His prediction was published under the headline "The Crystal Gazer from Crystal Falls." The Democratic majority...
...Disguised as a fortune teller of Damasciis (see p. 45). Not to be confused with famed Bartab Koran, a crystal gazer, who claims' credit for forecasting President Hoover's election in 19-28, the Japanese earthquake, the Manchurian crisis. Attracting enormous crowds to vaudeville, Bartab Koran has predicted that this year Newton Diehl Baker would be nominated by the Democrats, that the Democrats will carry all before them until Election Day when Herbert Hoover will be reelected. Calling at the White House, he was photographed with the President to whom he gave a gold idol from Tibet...
...Last week Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee reported on their activities. They had, he said, spent jointly some $400,000 to influence tariff legislation. Declared he: "The whole scheme is nothing but simple graft. . . . People might just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer as to give their money to lobbyists...