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Princess O'Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem...
...Before the Army & Navy reception, which wound up the White House social season, President & Mrs. Roosevelt had as their dinner guests Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. Thayer. Good friend of the Roosevelts, Dr. Thayer is New York State Commissioner of Correction. Another guest was Geoffrey O'Hara, who owns a copyright to "The Star-Spangled Banner" by virtue of having transposed it to a lower key and who wrote the War song "K-K-K-Katy." After dinner the President listened appreciatively while Singer McGregor McKnight rendered a number with music by Composer O'Hara, lyrics by Dr. Thayer...
...DOCTOR'S SON-John O'Hara- Harcourt, Brace...
...Irish seem a sentimental race, but they are hard underneath. Author O'Hara is rapidly qualifying himself for hard-boiled champion of the year. As straight a reporter of U. S. dialect as the late great Ring Lardner and straighter than Hemingway, he writes without bitterness, without pity. The effect is unpleasant but cruelly true to U. S. life. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (TIME, Aug. 20), offended many a reader, excited many a critic. This collection of sketches and short stories will raise the same echo...
Author O'Hara's subjects are as topical and immediate as newspaper stories: an influenza epidemic in a Pennsylvania mining district; a bus-girl in a Coffee Pot figuring up her budget; a smalltime crook getting the double-cross from his cronies. Almost without exception his characters are knaves, fools, or a mixture of both. But Author O'Hara edits his copy so cannily that his reports of their knavish or foolish goings-on are arresting...