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...steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attaché. "This is your ship. Captain," said the Admiral. "Might I ask what you propose to do?" When...
...starts with Belinda Rezende (Dolores Del Rio) sitting in a Miami cafe where a band leader (Gene Raymond) is making eyes at her. When he accepts her invitation to dance, his assistant (Fred Astaire) who pays less attention to music than to hoofing and joking with pretty Ginger Rogers remarks: "Hold your hats, boys.. Here...
Sitting Pretty (Paramount) concerns two songwriters, one serious (Jack Haley) and one deluded by conceit (Jack Oakie), who hitchhike from Manhattan to Hollywood, there indulge in romance, alcohol and creative work. Haley becomes attached to a blonde waif (Ginger Rogers) who meets the pair on their way West, follows them to Hollywood. Oakie grows fond of an erratic actress (Thelma Todd), who abandons him when he loses...
...leading male portrays a sap. Mr. Jack Oakie enacts this part with a naturalness that is commendable. The other roles shatter no illusions, with the exception of that charmingly and competently portrayed by Miss Ginger Rogers. It is true that Gregory Ratoff acts as though he were "casting artificial pearls before genuine swine," but then, as the producer in the plot, he is sitting pretty...
...Chairman Charles Adams and President Charles S. Munson of U. S. Industrial Alcohol. Upshot was Penn-Maryland, Inc., equally owned by National and U. S. Industrial. It was arranged that Penn-Maryland would make not only all of National's blended whiskey but also whiskey for Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Standard Brands will make Penn-Maryland's gin, will market its own brand, Fleischmann, through Penn-Maryland, make Canada Dry gin. The quality trade National Distillers reserved for itself-unblended Old Grand Dad, Old Crow, Old Taylor, Sunny Brook, Old Over holt, Large, Mount Vernon, In the importing...