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...Glamour Preferred (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements, produced by Brock Pemberton ) is a Hollywood story which for a few moments is highly engaging, thanks to the acting of Robert Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred...
...ambitious program of six plays running through the fall, the Theatre of the Fifteen is bringing to Boston "phases of the American scene" from Broadway jazz alligators to Hollywood glamour-boys. The No. 1 motif, which is Martha Pittenger's "A Man From The Band," concentrates on the Eastern seaboard, and, in particular, on a toney New York apartment where American-Rich-Girl-Number-Four marries a piano player and tries to reconcile the age-old differences between their opposing ways of life...
...course, after three years no one expects a crowd of amateurs. But you will be frankly surprised at the smoothness of the production, smoother than most glamour-musicals. The songs are done to a turn. There are no individual stars, but the revue is such a cohesive unit that your attention is kept right to the tick of the moment and you never start praying that the star will take...
...When will it ever end??", movie audiences are submitting themselves to the latest the Judge Hardy ordeals, "Andy Hardy Meets a Debutante." The substance of the film is an account of the Hardy family's hegira to the big, bad city of New York with various digressions on love, glamour, and Americanism. As the Hardy series progresses, moppet Rooney seems to be developing into a menace of national proportions, and one of the cleverest actors on the screens today. His seene with Judy Garland driving through Central Park at dawn in a carriage is the highest point in a considerably...
University of Pennsylvania Alumnus William Guggenheim, copper tycoon, chronic writer-to-the-papers, 71 -year-old songwriter (You're a Glamour Girl, Crumbs of Love), caught wind of a U. of P. plan to award Franklin Roosevelt an honorary degree. To President Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner, he sent an indignant wire, declaring that he believed the "vast majority of our 40,000 or more alumni, who are Willkie-for-President men," would be as shocked as he, hoping President Gates would "rectify what must be an unintentional mistake...