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Saturday's Children (First National). The marriage, parting and reunion of Maxwell Anderson's hero and heroine???one of the best of all U. S. plays?becomes heavy and slow in this partly-vocal photograph directed with sincerity but without much vitality by Gregory La Cava. Corinne Griffith's voice, heard for the first time, is nasal, unattractive, but somehow memorable. Best shot: Miss Griffith getting her sweetheart to marry...
...less than 1001 stanzas, by conservative count, were composed by the A. E. F. and others to a tune which the A. E. F. found British troops singing when they got to France. Roughly speaking, the song had a heroine???a "mademoiselle from Armentieres," to whom the song was dedicated. Habitual singers of informal songs are to be found, who "know all the verses." No boast could be more egregious, yet a certain uniformity obtains in all "complete versions" recorded by bawdy memories (for all versions were bawdy). In general, any "complete version" recites the beauty and whimsicality...
...they are honest. They tell William Henry Haskell IV that he must win Sara or she may run off with Siercy Hodd some day; as she does, to the usual hotel in Atlantic City. Greedy and spoiled though they are, they are captivating ladies, this author and heroine???up to a point...
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