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With an embryonic staff it is excusable, yet regrettable, that the first issue of the Advocate seems to be thrown together haphazardly. IIad the criticism been used to liven up the back pages of the book, and the bold black headlines been changed to something more fitting a literary magazine, the effect of the professional-looking drawings would have been increased greatly...
...Hollywood's better wits, find themselves stymied by some of the feeblest of material. Garbed in the inevitable technicolor. "The Time, The Place, and The Girl" turns out to be an all-too-typical musical, straight off the moviemakers seemingly endless assembly line. Jack Carson does his best to liven things up a bit, handling a sparse handful of gags with a veteran hand, and most of the musical numbers, though of no great significance, are pleasant enough to the eye and ear, but that's about...
...stand a touch of sin ... a naughty trifle now & then, just to liven things up. They have always enjoyed such tidbits in British politics, the record of which abounds with magnificent exaggerations, metaphors and friendly libels. American political campaigns have always been a quadrennial circus...
...year. He bought an 18-room house, built along the lines of a moderate-sized hotel, on St. Louis' private, exclusive Portland Place, where he still lives. For a time, the Bungles formula seemed surefire: there was a good deal of POW, SOCK and WHAM to liven the adventures of shrewish Josephine and gullible George, whose chief vice was signing papers before he read them. But the Bungles' incessant quarreling, which would have exhausted any real life couple, eventually got too painful for the readers. The strip's newspaper clients dropped to 70 in 1942. Cartoonist Tuthill...
...broadcasters, aboil with plans last week, hoped to do more than explain, in down-to-earth terms, exactly what goes on. Consciously steering clear of a "carnival atmosphere," they intended, all the same, to liven the conference...