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Last week Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, chief of the Navy press bureau, visited Manhattan to chat with newsmen and offset the agitation for a separate air force. At that conference, the question was asked: what is the Navy's air policy? The answer...
Vacationing among the onions and Percherons on his 1,000-acre farm in Ontario, loud Premier Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn barged ebulliently into a St. Thomas filling station and, finding no operator, went to work on the gas pump himself. "Hey, you can't do that," yelled the attendant, appearing at last. "It's against the law!" "The law is an ass-I'll have it changed," grinned Farmer Mitch...
...Lady Eve" has just enough of both slap-stick and character acting to make it a super-streamlised example of the plot-dialogue comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns...
Katherine Hepburn manages to play what some critics claim is Katherine Hepburn with consummate artistry. James Stewart acts out what is most certainly not James Stewart with considerably less success. And Cary Grant serves as an excellent back-drop for the two. Take the acting of these three, plus excellent support from the minor characters, a highly sophisticated (often too sophisticated) script, and excellent direction throughout, and you have "The Philadelphia Story...
...Miss Hepburn spends the first part of the picture in a highly cold and sober condition; as such she is commendable as an actress but not too attractive as a person, which is what some of her less admiring critics would have us believe is her off-the-screen personality. Be this as it may, in the later sequences she manages to become so convincingly human, so persuasively drunk, so thoroughly funny, that with a paunch, a red nose, a hoarse voice, and certain unmentionables she could easily pass for W. C. Fields...