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...newspaper in New Hampshire is neither very big nor very famous. But newsmen know the Manchester evening Leader (circ. 20,000) and its morning-after edition, the Union (25,000), as the springboard from which the late Frank Knox bounded to the big time and the Chicago Daily News. Prim and profitable, the Leader has never bothered to put out a Sunday paper, has been content to let Boston dailies grab off most of the morning circulation in town...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
...that they go through 100 minutes of film and manage to maintain an intelligent, if platonic, relationship that must set a new record for Hollywood forbearance. In the place of love under the Siamese moon, 20th-Century-Fox has fashioned an interesting tale of what can happen when a prim but courageous English-woman goes to take up the white man's burden and remains to guide the destiny of a struggling monarch and his nation. All this is decidedly novel for a high-budget film, but Director Louis Lighton and his star, Rex Harrison, manage to carry...
Gypsy Rose Lee, dressed to the chin, prim as a nanny and starchy as a duchess, took the air in Chicago's Lincoln Park with Son Eric nestled in a "cuddleseat," gave her public something new to goggle...
Dried Milk Paid Better. Blackwood has been fascinated by what he calls "strange powers" since boyhood. The son of Sir Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., and Sydney, Duchess of Manchester, he was sent to Canada about 1890 to make his living as a farmer. Apparently his prim Victorian parents had little hope for a son who, at 20, read the Bhagavad Gita and claimed to be a Buddhist. He settled near Toronto and bought into a dairy partnership, but the enterprise soon failed. For the next nine or ten years he drifted around Canada and the U.S., losing what little money...