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Visiting London this spring, Bob Menzies found himself the most popular of Empire statesmen. Though in Australia he is regarded as a brilliant representative of Big Business, the British found him the perfect type of forthright, homespun Colonial. He became a favorite of Winston Churchill, was talked up in the press as War Cabinet timber...
Sincerest American tribute was that of Cordell Hull. This homespun, intensely American American said of the late Arthur Purvis: "A true Englishman...
...Shepherd of the Hills (Paramount) is homespun Harry Carey, who returns to his Ozark mountain home after a long prison term and proceeds to restore the feuding hillbillies to their once kindly ways. Pictorially superb, the Technicolored film suffers from its endless moralizing and Cloud-Cuckoo language. Shown at Branson, Mo., in the heart of the Ozarks, it so stirred one native that he picketed the local cinema with a placard: UNFAIR TO LOCAL CHARACTERS...
...Dick and Harry (RKO Radio) is homespun Ginger Rogers' first picture since her Oscarization. That Hollywood halo has not noticeably affected good old Ginger. She is still the epitome of the U.S. working girl-nonchalant, wise-eyed, self-sufficient, heaven-protected. Her performance as Janie The Beautiful Phone Girl, whose moonstruck propensity for accepting honorable proposals lands her in three simultaneous engagements, is adroitly comic...
Engaged. Molly O'Daniel, 19, daughter of Texas' elaborately homespun Governor W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel; and Jack Devereaux Wrather, member of one of Texas' oil-wealthy families; in Houston...