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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness of this attack, it followed on the heels of Germany's seizure of four Danish ships, three carrying butter, eggs and bacon to Britain, one timber to The Netherlands. These seizures, which would never be paid for in real money, were gross violations of Germany's reiterated promise to let Denmark trade freely with all belligerents...
...with his biggest client, Mother has already got to Father No. 1, who runs out on David. Disillusioned, with much boyish charm David tells Mother she has made a nice mess of both their lives. She packs him off "where he belongs," to Father No. 1, who never did run out anyway, is still a city editor. Good shot: the Professor's harum-scarum daughter (Brenda Joyce), who calls all her father's students "Fathead," hearing that Fatheads David and pal have read Joseph Conrad's Victory. Daughter: "Smart fatheads...
...Lawyer bongs and clatters like a bowling alley, but instead of ripping off strikes & spares, the pins go down only two or three at a time, and the pin boys are much too slow in setting them up again. The show has laughs, but never (as a farce must) piles up its laughter; everybody works a little too hard, tries to be a little too crazy. It's the old George Abbott formula minus the old George Abbott form: quite a drop from the headlong days of Three Men on a Horse and Room Service, when in the world...
...sprout. But its canny appraisal of the ins & outs of popular song-singing may well make it the aspiring mike-moaner's Bible. Do you want to make big money singing songs for the U. S. radio and cinema public? Then stay away from highbrow vocal teachers, never mind your high C ("Many girls have made fortunes without ever coming within an octave of it"). Concentrate on naturalness and intimacy. Learn how to act at auditions, how to win fans and influence producers...
...everything. . . . We never had no words...