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...eyed Charles Boyer, although his performance could not be called expansive, plays his accustomed role with some comedy and without undue strain. Earnest Margaret Sullavan manages to seem nubile as well as noble. On the whole, Appointment, like Bill Nye's appraisal of Wagner's music, is "better than it sounds...
...went through over their protests, stormed out of the Capital to tour the country for the isolationist cause. Chief among them were Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who hates the President, dreams of riding into the White House on the crest of a post-war isolationist wave; Senator Gerald P. Nye, one of the most detested and distrusted men in the Senate; Representative Hamilton Fish, demagogic, erratic, unstable, who also dreams of being President some...
...little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men," said Senator Tobey at one of the early hearings in the Senate probe of the motion picture industry. At the time, the Senator's words seemed to offer the best explanation of what went on when Nye, Clark, Brooks, and company ran head-on into Wendell Willkie and his cotcric of assorted Hollywood executives. The whole show promised to set off more fireworks then a double-feature movie with a Mickey Mouse, newsreel, and Bank Night thrown...
...show in question. The investigation has rumbled along on an anti-British, anti-Semitic, anti-foreign-born campaign, stopping along the way to take a few digs at both the President and Mr. Willkie. The thoroughness with which the committee sought to avoid the truth was typified by Senator Nye's admission that most of the members of the committee had seen none of the movies that they alleged were pushing the United States to the brink...
...hard to laugh the whole investigation off, but at a time like this such laughter rings a bit hollow. When the elected representatives of this country openly declare, as Senator Nye did, that they are "not, as yet, in favor of bringing the question of anti-Semitism into the investigation," then some sort of scepticism regarding their motives might well be expected...