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...favored by the adenoidal mother and the crustacean father of the big-hipped , must insult, get drunk, and make himself generally obnoxious before he can win their disfavor and the hand of the sought-for female. It all works out. The insufferable suitor Bernie, with his green and Yellow roadster and his blatant familiarities, is foiled in the end, and the baby-faced Tommy gains marriage and all it implies. Unhappy endings are only for tragedies, and this, we are told by the program, is a "scintillating comedy...
...Plans were made last week to move most of the White House office staff to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. for August when President Roosevelt takes the rest of his vacation at nearby Hyde Park. Around his estate the President will drive not a General Motors' Pontiac roadster, as reported, but a Chrysler-built De Soto. A "special job," this roadster was so contrived that it may be entirely operated by hand. Before his election Mr. Roosevelt had a Ford roadster equipped with hand gadgets for brake and clutch...
...General Motors built for and last week delivered to President Roosevelt a Pontiac roadster entirely operable by hand, which will carry the President about his Hyde Park estate when he goes there the end of this month...
...plan for air-conditioning the Tribune Tower. Find out all about it-what systems we might use, how much it would cost, how long it wrould take-everything. Yes, start in right now." That afternoon, as is his custom. Col. McCormick climbed into his old Rolls-Royce roadster and drove into town for a night's work, beginning with an editorial conference, where everyone talked about the weather. Next day the Tribune's biggest news story of the day swung down from an eight-column streamer: 100.1° HEAT IS JUNE RECORD But a much more important story...
Efforts to modernize the play by such devices as a radio-equipped roadster, which Peg drives into a pond, are a failure. The most convincing element in Peg O' My Heart is Miss Davies' pardonable affection for her own brogue, which sometimes causes her to speak as though she had a live mackerel under her tongue. Typical shot: Peg's father. Pat (J. Farrell MacDonald) when he sees that she is downcast, advising her to appeal to the Wee Folk...