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Tars and Spars (Columbia) introduces to the screen a likable blond zany named Sid Caesar. This otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood...
From the time they meet in the theater's bomb cellar during an alert, Rosalind's affair with her flyer is beset by the uncertainties, urgencies and misunderstandings of war, and by the jealousy of a young 4-F dancer (Marc Platt) whom she has coached to a featured spot in the show. But in the end the flyer proves faithful (he was away on a secret mission), the young dancer dies in a bombing, and Rosalind carries on with the show while her new husband goes off to the wars again...
Last week the two mysteries merged: astonished Antonio Agostini, bereft husband of the "Pajama Girl," wriggled desperately, impaled upon the point of Mrs. Flemington's relentless pen. Police charged the beefy sometime silk merchant, now a waiter, with murdering his wife, Linda Platt, daughter of Mrs. Flemington by an earlier marriage...
...York (where Tutt first practiced law); in pre-World-War-I Manhattan (where Tutt learned that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known...
...Alexander Louis Jackson, 3d., John Pressly Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Robert Fulton Kurtz, Elliott Charles Lasser, Truman Saul Licht, Russell Frank Locke, Jr., James Logan, Jr., Henry Hixon Meyer, Jr., Clarence Fahnestock Michalis, Ernest Albert Mitchell, John Acton Morgan, Roland Ernest Mueser, Sean Buller Murphy, Henry Norris Platt, Jr., Alfred Howard Renshaw, Walter Barnwell Saunders, Dorraine Ward Slingerland, William Edward Smith, Arthur Sumner Tarlow, Richard Lawrence Wechsler, Edward Tubbs Wentworth, Jh., Walter Chadbourne Wilson, Jr., Benjamin Tappan Wright...