Word: lombard
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...front and center. But it's a neat job of direction. There is some claptrap in the script, trying to impute deeper meanings to a few of the characters, but it's not bothersome. Also a lot of the jazzy repartee reminds one of an old Montgomery-Lombard movie...
...Milanese have set out to cure their sense of inferiority in matters of art. Last week they had on display the most impressive array of Lombard art ever assembled. The exhibit, which took four years to gather, includes frescoes lifted bodily from the walls of churches, oils on loan from all over Europe and the U.S., marble sculptures lowered from the peaks of the Duomo for their first close-up inspection in more than 400 years. An imposing array of 501 objects spread out over 22 rooms of Milan's solemn Palazzo Reale, viewed by more than a thousand...
Member of the Wedding. In Waukesha, Wis., ex-Sheriff Michael Lombard!, charged with going easy on Dominic Picciurro's saloon, testified that he hardly knew Picciurro, would as soon have arrested him as anyone, admitted on cross examination that he was best man at Picciurro's wedding...
...Godfrey (Universal). Farce, like souffle, can't be warmed over. Back in 1936, when this piece of fluff came hot from Hollywood, it was crisp and light with the most expensive ingredients (William Powell and Carole Lombard). But a couple of decades have somehow taken the puff out of the stuff. At second serving it looks, as the French say of second servings, a little senile...
...amusing situation-so why isn't it a more amusing picture? Allyson and Niven can hardly be expected to fill the bill with anything like the inspired inanities of which Lombard and Powell were capable. But the real fault seems to lie with Director Henry Koster. who apparently has not learned that even a good joke can be spoiled by bad timing...