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...Singing Kid (Warner). Cinemaddicts for whom Warner Brothers musicals have hitherto been trademarked by the presence of Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee and Frank McHugh, may well rub their eyes to discover herein such novelties as Negro Bandmaster Cab Calloway, the Yacht Club Boys, a British-sounding ingenue named Beverly Roberts and a 6-year-old moppet called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations...
...enter the League of Nations. The attention of statesmen all over Europe is centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members of the continental brain-trust...
...Rub. ''Among the nations of the great Western Hemisphere the policy of the good neighbor has happily prevailed. . . . There is neither war, nor rumor of war, nor desire for war. The inhabitants of this vast area, 250,000,000 strong . . . believe in, and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbor. And they wish with all their heart that the rest of the world might do likewise. "The rest of the world-Ah! There's the rub. . . . The people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing...
...successfully flatters his middle-class public and also their beloved sovereign with such turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be descended in some roundabout way from Julius Caesar. . . . And we fools rub our eyes and wonder when we see genius come out of the gutter! It did not begin there . . . Shakespeare . . . Napoleon . . . who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry...
...appeared that the Governor had waited one day too long to veto the bill which had automatically become the law of Alabama. Other Alabama editors just howled, but not the Dothan Eagle's young Editor Hall. On his front page appeared an editorial to make Dothan citizens rub their eyes...