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...more than happy to meet face to face all of you Democratic Statesmen whom I have learned to honor. . . . Our next President will be a Democrat! Our next Senate will be Democratic and our next House will be still more Democratic. No matter what the opposition says. . . ." This somewhat girlish enthusiasm was politely applauded by the grizzled Democrats, who shudder after each G.O.P. victory like trees when a King of the Forest is cut down...
Hers to Hold (Universal) is another example of the high artfulness whereby Universal has inched its best-paying property, Diva Deanna Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings...
Susan Peters does a masterful job of making herself sweetly obnoxious as she chases Coleman. Her girlish lisp is aggravating, but don't let it spoil the picture for you. There are a number of scenes near the end in which the element of suspense is so capably, delicately handled that they more than compensate for an occasional bad scene...
Heading it are Katharine Cornell, Ju dith Anderson, Ruth Gordon. Flanking them, moreover - in mere character parts - are Edmund Gwenn, who last season swaggered through the gaudy title role of The Wookey; Alexander Knox, who last season minced through the prissy title role of Jason; Dennis King, who made girlish hearts beat faster as the hero of Show Boat, Rose Marie, The Vagabond King...
...scene that has done most to enhance Diana's Barrymore reputation was the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet which she played with her father last winter on Rudy Vallee's radio program. During rehearsals she uttered girlish spontaneities like "I'm so warm I'd like to rip this dress right down to the navel." But on the air she was a luminously sensitive Juliet. Ogling his daughter fondly in his dressing room afterwards, Old John cried: "You can bet the whole damn family was listening in and proud...