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Rich, urbane Culbert Levy Olson, elderly matinee idol of Western politics, looks like the movies' conception of a Governor. Thick, white hair sets off his handsome, ruddy face. He has the half-weary smile, the resonant, half-weary voice of an elderly statesman. He likes to dress impeccably, smoke impeccably good cigars and espouse impeccably liberal ideas, not to say a few fancy pension schemes, if necessary...
...Corrigan . . . I thought he was Pictures, and all the time he was just Little Theater"). Each would, if she could, ride "the world's debacle as if it was her own yacht," while saving the tears "for Finland and the photographers." They quickly gang up on their erstwhile idol, Amanda, when her infidelity brings her husband's powerful publishing machine into action against...
...Talk of the Town (Columbia) spends 118 mirthful minutes making Matinee Idol Ronald Colman an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. But not before Gary Grant and Jean Arthur have taught him the difference between law as it is taught in law schools and law as it is practiced in law courts. This pedagogic plot turns into hilarious comedy, largely through the expert energy of Cinemactress Arthur, the expert apathy of Cinemactor Grant, the expert wispiness of Old-Timer Colman...
...With a Hoe. Ambrose Bierce once told Edwin Markham that The Man with the Hoe would one day kill him. Instead the poem made Poet Markham $250,000 before he died (of natural causes) at 87. It also made him the idol of a small army of would-be biographers who have besieged Son Virgil Markham, a mystery writer, for the privilege of writing the poet's life. Each claimed that Poet Markham had authorized him to write his official biography...
...Near East and if Turkey is forced to take sides-if, for example, Adolf Hitler wants a Turkish road to the East. Then the United Nations can only hope that Turkey's statesmen will bear in mind the supposed last words of their old friend and idol, Kamâl Atat...