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...movies have found their forte in comedy, and are pounding away at it with gratification to all concerned. No need to linger in the drawing room and draw) out withering words, all in observance of the mity of space, no need for this with the wide world and dizzy speed at easy command. So the new comedy goes tearing around at a breakneck pace, and drives one into gulps of amazed laughter. "Love on the Run" is just such a picture, and keeps the promise contained in its title. But not content to run amuck with foaming month...
Makes gentlemen who linger libertines...
...equal approbation a catalog of the casual heroisms of everyday work, the hazards of steelmaking, of mining, of railroading. He records the last words of a wireless operator on a sinking ship ("This is no night to be out without an umbrella!") and the names of railroads: The Delay Linger and Wait is the D. L. & W., the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western...
Future historians will probably not linger long over the Democratic Convention of 1936. They will record the automatic renomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner, refer briefly to a platform hand-made at the White House (see p. 14), remark on the high spirits of the delegates and pass on to matters of larger moment. But many a young Democrat will long remember his Party's Philadelphia party last week as one of the wildest political jamborees ever staged. Whatever the donkey's doings may have lacked in heavy brain work, it more than made...
...characters. Non-Fiction THE HERITAGE OF THE CATHEDRAL- Sartell Prentice-Morrow ($3.50). Offering the layman a rich interpretation of church architecture through the ages, this work should provide absorbing reading for conscientious tourists, many a pleasant hour for those who stay at home. WAR IN THE PACIFIC-Sutherland Den-linger and Charles B. Gary-McBride ($3). What every U. S. citizen should know about the Navy, and how it will defend the interests of the U. S. if and when a war with Japan breaks. The odds are in favor of the U. S., the authors conclude, "provided that there...