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Skillfully directed by Mervyn LeRoy, adorned with two members of the original stage cast (Teddy Hart and Sam Levene), Three Men On A Horse is more than just a very funny picture. It has the authentic lilt and shuffle of that Broadway half-world whose deflated, hard-packed mirth had had no equal interpretation since the late Ring Lardner. Best scenes : the Lavillere staff, including the bartender, the bellhop and the maid, working on Oiwin's greeting-card orders; Patsy's girl Mabel (Joan Blondell) keeping Oiwin from going; home by showing him the specialty...
Pigskin Parade (Twentieth Century-Fox). Whether this was intended as a musical picture with a collegiate background or a football picture to end all football pictures remains uncertain and unimportant. What comes out is an all-time high in gridiron mirth and a musical that ranks with the season's best. For the radio celebrities, revolving stages and philharmonic orchestras that are current cinemusical trappings, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck has substituted a story that prances like a mustang, half-a-dozen songs with hit possibilities, a cast of capable young troupers who perform their functions with a contagious enjoyment...
...from Lisbon: "The world is breathless before your heroism! If you can hold out you can have full revenge on your tormentors. Moroccan troops have instructions not to leave a soul alive in Toledo! They are within nine miles of the city butchering Marxist villagers." This false claim made mirth for the Reds who also guffawed when White Seville broadcast on Aug. 31 the lie that White "Colonel Yague is at the gates of Toledo...
Joseph Stalin, chairman of the drafters of Russia's new Constitution (TIME, June 15). became the butt of Soviet mirth last week. Reason: the Constitution was discovered to have been so drafted that it gives the vote only to persons in the 18th year of their...
...Adams and John Winthrop from Massachusetts; John C. Calhoun from South Carolina; Sam Houston from Texas). Most of them, though, are second-rate politicians of the last century whose fame has already faded out of history. A few are local heroes so obscure and forgotten as to cause derisive mirth among Capitol sightseers. Such a one is the statue of Dr. John Gorrie, sent to Washington by Florida in 1914. Dr. Gorrie is identified as the first successful maker of artificial ice in the U. S. Not long after Dr. Gorrie died in 1855 famed Botanist-Physician Alvan Wentworth Chapman...