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Sighed he: "I am so damned tired. I am going to have a large Scotch & soda." But it was too early for the pub to be open and he had to celebrate on ginger beer...
Thus last week continued the lining up of teams of famed names for the big game on Nov. 3. To offset the Republicans' Cornelia Otis Skinner, Geraldine Farrar and Ginger Rogers, Democrats had Helen Hayes, Lillian Gish, Grace Moore. Sally Rand. George Ade and Booth Tarkington were signed for Landon. George Jean Nathan and Theodore Dreiser for Roosevelt. Chester A. Arthur III. for Roosevelt, was ready to cancel out John Coolidge's vote for Landon...
When Skipper Orsborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged cursing to the Georgetown jail at the end of their jaunt, they were mysteriously released at once. Seamen John Hector Harris and Howard ("Ginger") Stephens presently journeyed home to England via New York. The Brothers Orsborne landed back in jail for street-fighting, were kept there on complaint of the Girl Pat's owners, Marstrand Fishing Co., who have already collected ?3,000 insurance for her loss...
Contrary to the theatre-advertisement that "Swing Time: is their greatest dance and song achievement," Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are not at their best. But don't misunderstand us, "Swing Time" is still a mighty entertaining picture...
...picture opens with Fred Astaire late for his wedding, a circumstance that eventually saves him from an unhappy marriage and preserves him for a chance meeting with Ginger Rogers, a ball room instructor. He gambles his way into quite a fortune--in fact gambling eases him over a great many of his obstacles. And the effect on the audience is very pleasing, because it saves them a lot of worrying and figuring out how he can get out of this or that scrape. "Swing Time" offers anyone with a sense of humor a very pleasant evening...