Word: homespun
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...Exalted absentees: homespun Governor General Donal Buckley of the Irish Free State who sent his rugged regrets; and Rumania's buck-toothed Hohenzollern, the bride's "Uncle Carol" who fumed in Bucharest because he was not invited, sent no wedding present...
University: "Handy Andy"--Will Rogers in a very amusing comedy in his particular homespun manner. Some hilariously funny scenes at the New Orleans Mardi Gras. "The Defense Rests"--all about a master criminal lawyer who wins every case he handles and ends up in the loving arms of his blonde secretary. On Sunday the change of program brings the very excellent "One Night of Love" with the captivating Grace Moore. Also the screen adaptation of Bruce Lockhart's exciting story of his experiences as British consul in Moscow in 1917 and 1918, "British Agent...
...Handy Andy," is another of those likeable, homespun Will Rogers movies and in line with the worthy standards of this star it is a highly amusing film. After a successful career as town pharmacist and philosopher, Andy (Mr. Rogers) is finally forced to accede to his wife's demands and retire from his beloved drugstore in order to follow the life of culture and pleasure which his socially minded spouse has mapped out for him. On a golf course, Mr. Rogers is truly a sight to behold in his plus fours and outspoken golf hose. The round of gaieties only...
Fellow-Poet Mark Van Doren hails Jesse Stuart as an "American Burns." Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends. No book to read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar...
...hushed heart throb. Having mastered his technique he proceeded to turn out He Went Away for a While and The Beginning of a Mortal. Now appears The Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner of a daily columnist. Now he has built himself a house. He serves up 34 disconnected pieces about the new edifice and the community in which he and his wife find themselves...