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...spun and forced. As is so often true in drawing-room comedy, the secondary characters are the most fun. Mr. Cotten's Tory father (delightfully played by John Cromwell) seems a wittier cousin of the late George Apley, while Cathleen Nesbitt, as a great lady who purrs, and Luella Gear, as a career woman who drips acid, also add to the brightness...
...Gutter. The fighting is sharpest in the streets and in city slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown and Luella Larder, of the army's Greater New York division, command one such corps (church) at 349 Bowery. One night last week, as they had hundreds of other times, they gathered to their fold some 200 men-refugees from the saloons attracted by amplified phonograph music, drawn by hunger, curiosity...
When Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...
Count Me In (music & lyrics by Ann Ronell; book by Waiter Kerr & Leo Brady) has Charles Butterworth and Luella Gear (both accomplished comics when they are given half a chance), the nimble dancing feet of Hal Leroy, a fast-paced, fine-feathered chorus and an estimated $100,000 worth of trimmings. What makes it commonplace is its tunes. What bends it over double and finally lays it out flat is its book (about a family who are all in the war except Papa): it stupefies with as dull a book as any in years...
...protects children against diphtheria and whooping cough at the same time was described at the Atlantic City meeting of the American Public Health Association last week. The vaccine, a combination of standard diphtheria toxoid and a new preparation containing the germs of whooping cough, was developed by Dr. Pearl Luella Kendrick of the Michigan State Department of Health...