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...Pure Hokum! . . . How can one (even an editor) "generalize" about America's million teachers? The range from top to bottom in the teaching profession runs the entire gamut of human ability from genius to moron (as it does in all professions...
Missouri Legend is stale bread, but bread that is bound to fall butter side up because both sides are buttered. On the one side, there is the romantic bad man and all the melodramatic hokum ever devised, including the widder woman preyed upon by the wily banker. And if this side does not please sophisticated Broadway as it once pleased a gaslit Bowery, there is Playwright Ginty's nimble kidding and drawling backwoods humor to save...
...Lightnin', wave after wave of purest hokum sweeps across the stage, but so candidly that nobody minds. Famed Hoofer Fred Stone (Montgomery & Stone) proved himself a winning character actor, brought to the title role made famous by Frank Bacon if not the same homely vigor, a sly and childlike charm. Lightnin', as Actor Stone-borrowing an old line of his-remarked in his curtain speech, is a play "to which children can safely bring their parents...
TIME'S motto: De mortuis nil hokum...
Crashing Hollywood (RKO Radio). Oldtimer Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury and a group of recidivists from the RKO stock company make melodrama among the studio's sound stages. Old hokum, new style...