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Virginia (Paramount). Produced by Virginia-born Director Edward H. Griffith,* from a story he wrote with Virginia Van Upp, Virginia was filmed on the spot, in torrid, somnolent Albemarle County, where Thomas Jefferson lived and died. In spite of the labored accents of its non-Confederate cast (only Southern actor featured in Virginia is Tom Rutherford, a Richmond blue blood) its lines have an authentic ring, might have been copied down verbatim from the resentful speeches of Albemarle's land-loving inhabitants...
...first contest of the evening, the losers broke the scoring ice first when Chick tallied for Dunster in 1.06 of the first period. Then came the deluge with Neagle, Peabody, Fagelund, Griffith, and Harrison (2) donting the twine for Kirkland House...
...parade stands were a big job, requiring 600,000 board feet of pine. With labor costs for such work in Washington up 20% from 1937 and materials up 33 to 50%, the stands will cost the inaugural committee $50,000 (of which $3,818 goes to Clark Griffith for bleachers brought from his Senators' ball park). Although seats sell for $2 to $10, the committee will do well to break even, expects to have nothing left over for Washington's community fund.* Other inauguration preparations last week...
...Into Griffith Park Washingtonians poured, chanting the Redskin battle...
...miraculous tackle on the one-yard line in the next-to-last play of the game. But the score is what counts. Thus Washington residents, from Cabinet members to White House flunkeys, mesmerized by the big talk of the Redskins' Big Chief, George P. Marshall, trooped into Griffith Park last week, convinced that it was all over but the whoopee, and all set to drape the Washington Monument with red bunting after the game...