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Repeated broadcasts of the denial and the exoneration of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet finally took the lather off the boycott. But last week stickers protesting the "Protestant invasion" appeared again in Mexico City...
...Dick Powell, Franchot Tone and the other players lather it on, True To Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...
...Sothern, one of the smartest comediennes in the business. In part it is due to a crisp script, which manages to lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...
...produced, flag-waving war serial Patria. Another dancer, who took her talents directly into camps, was highbrowed Ruth St. Denis. One of her numbers, called Spirit of Democracy, might serve as a touching, rousing symbol of the whole of entertainment in World War I. It worked up through a lather of militant gestures (bayoneting, grenade-lobbing, etc.) to a disconcerting climax in which a girl in black tatters tottered onto the stage beseeching aid and, after suitable gyrations, flopped dead...
...cheerfully, year in & out, recitalists plunk down their hard-earned cash, practice themselves into a lather, suffer stage fright and accept their inevitable financial trimmings with a smile. Some are music teachers or locally famous virtuosos, in small U.S. cities, who hope to take home a batch of favorable press clippings. Some are second-rank European artists who hope to enter the U.S. concert world by Manhattan's tricky revolving door. Some, like Clarinetist Benny Goodman, Cinemactress Jeanette MacDonald, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, are successful popular artists who cannot resist a yen to compete in the long-hair trade...