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...Rode Together (Ford; Columbia) is a capricious, unsuccessful but oddly likable western by Director John Ford, who starts off by making it seem clear that the film will be a horselaugh opera. Jimmie Stewart plays a grafting marshal who has a 10% piece of everything in a Panhandle dust hole, including a gorgeous sporting-house proprietress. But when a cavalry lieutenant (Richard Widmark) asks him mysteriously to ride 40 miles to the fort, Stewart scuttles away with him. The sporting lady wears a stiletto, the marshal explains, and favors marriage...
...Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...Goodie" Knight--Republican governor of the State of California--is an honest man. He's a balding, cherubic politician of the old school, a hand-shaker and a baby-kisser to whom politics is a game--not without humor nor immune to the horselaugh...
Critics and public alike gave them the horselaugh. The art fashion of the 1900s was as opposed to realism as it is today. Now, abstractions are the rage; then, art in the U.S. was spelled with a capital A and stood for dreamy, academic idealizations. The lively glimpses of real people, places and things that Sloan and his friends painted struck art lovers as ugly. The group was scornfully dubbed "The Ashcan School...
From the grave of the Literary Digest, whose back was broken by its 1936 straw vote,* came a sepulchral horselaugh last week. "Nothing malicious, mind you," said ex-Digest Editor Wilfred J. Funk, now a Manhattan book publisher, "but I get a very good chuckle out of this...