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...moment he halted, got to his knees and divested himself of gear that he had been carrying on his back. Then he rushed forward and with a violent motion threw a potato masher grenade into the trench. As the officer rushed away smoke rose from the trench. Then bits of dust began kicking up around the officer from a machine gun on the far flank of the trench which the officer had not been able to see. We watched him crawl back, put on his gear again and then collect his three...
...appearing at that Pantheon of U.S. vaudeville, The Palace. Jimmy is a sort of Irish George Raft, who loves Jo. Jo is a surprisingly sweet young girl, who unfortunately loves Harry. Harry is a dangerous but successful novelty in musicomedy: a character who begins as a squirrel-collared masher and winds up, without too much grinding of gears, as a hero. In the course of this cinemetamorphosis...
...they took Sedan," then offering to show her how Paris fell. Cadet Wigton (Raymond Roe) takes Sedan with a fuzzily rapacious kiss, fails to take Paris. The other boys superimpose a line of their own on this basic strategy. Cadet Osborne (Frankie Thomas Jr.) turns out to be Masher Benchley's boy. Like his old man, he uses the Park Avenue technique, tells her that "you and I could make beautiful music together." Like father, he fails even to take Sedan. One chubby little cadet just leers forlornly, like a bleached Boyer...
...Lebanon, Ohio, Mrs. Louella Paugh bequeathed to her daughter-in-law one rolling-pin, one potato-masher...
...lyric pursuit of that frolicking wisp, The Awful Truth (TIME, Nov. 1), winds up chasing its own tail. Sprightly Comedienne Irene Dunne is a gifted musi-comedy star upon whose purse strings depends a chiseling family. Unbidden to the rescue leaps Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a well-intentioned masher with a way of laughing the law's locksmiths out of doing their sworn duty. The result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when the pens run dry, the authors resort...