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...PERENNIAL BOARDER - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Norton ($2). Olive Beadle, shot in Ye Olde Whale caravansary on Cape Cod, gives Asey Mayo a rare bit of homespun detecting to do. Asey's grammar gets worse as his sleuthing gets better...
Installed at last in the Hall of Fame (owner: New York University; place: The Bronx) was homespun, star-spangled Composer Stephen Collins Foster (My Old Kentucky Home, Old Black Joe), whose bust was unveiled with elaborate ceremonies and the blessings of many organizations, including ASCAP...
...minimum. This was a bold move, for Hollywood's bug-eyed Bernhardt has won two Oscars and numerous legs on the cup for the U.S. cinema's ablest actress by her portrayals of suffering women. In The Great Lie she is cast as a lively, homespun, slacks-wearing American girl free from her favorite neuroses. Although the picture has her living on a Maryland plantation, it is far enough north to let her waive the absurdities of a Southern accent...
Galesburg, Ill. is giving a lead in interdenominationalism. The new pastor of its big First Presbyterian Church is lanky, homespun Christie Swain-who until last month was minister of Galesburg's smaller Emmanuel Methodist Church...
...highly original box-office wiles from the opening moment when a cartooned snake wriggles down the title and gets stuck trying to crawl through the O in Sturges' first name. The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor, with 25 swank costume changes, and reveals homespun Henry Fonda, with a drawing room haircut and 14 sound tailoring jobs, as one of the screen's most socially eligible juveniles...