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...Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings the Kashmiri Song, the Seguidilla from Carmen, and the topical, not very catchy Say a Pray'r for the Boys...
...except two arched trellises, pushed onto the stage as director Edwin Burr Pettet said, "for those who think they have to have scenery." A few chairs, two tables, a couple of ladders and a board are the frugal furnishings, images created in the minds of the audience by Mr. Petter's homely descriptions and the pantomime of the rest of the cast build the streets, houses, gardens and churches of Grover's Corners more effectively than could an M. G. M. location...
Harvard won both the foils and sabre competitions by 5-4 margins. Captain Philip E. Lilienthal '36, Richard Morgan, 4th '36, and William F. Gerber '37 turned in outstanding performances for Harvard, while Bertsche, Jacobs Petter, and Weidel showed up well for Columbia...
...incomplete list of the patronesses includes Mrs. G. R. Agassia Mrs Irving Babbitt. Mrs. Roger Bigelow, Mrs Edward Bujrlingame, Mrs. George R.s Edgell Miss Jeane Edwards, Mrs. George Feete, Mrs. J. D. M. Ferd. Mrs Joseph Mercter, Mrs. Andre Morise Mrs. T. N. Perkins. Mrs. J. M. Petter, Mrs E. K. Rand, Mrs, Paul Sachs Mrs. C. R. C. Wright...
...some 6,000,000 morning and evening papers white-haired, drab-mustached Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter's picture promptly appeared. Said the Rothermere Daily Mail: "Sir Ernest Petter, one of the country's foremost business men, threw a bombshell into official Conservative circles last night...