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Secretary Roosevelt rises at eight o'clock, dons one of his four well-tailored business suits* and eats a hasty fruit-egg-toast-and-coffee breakfast. By 9:15 he is in the White House car which has been sent for him, his eldest daughter, Sara, 5, seated beside him. He drops her at the Potomac School the kindergarten of which he is a War-time alumnus. By 9130 James Roosevelt is at his father's bedside with Secretaries Early and Mclntyre. ready for the day's orders. At 10 his appointments begin...
Actress Julie Haydon plays radiantly as the simple-hearted slavey, makes the Canon's conversion entirely credible. Chief among the excellent supporting cast is Sara Allgood. Her plump, pious spinster was so richly comic that first-nighters chortled at her every gesture...
...crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks about her father. Thus, although it contains the story of Corn-plow's flight to Europe...
...business is being ruined by cancelled orders, and the question comes up of whether the family should accept ruin or sell indirectly to the Italian government. They take the noble stand, when out of the sky drops James Madison Clevenger, the news magnate and former passionate admirer of Sara in her acting days. In spite of his cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either...
Ethel Barrymore is superb in the role of Sara. Although the role is that of a dominant person, Miss Barrymore has happily realized that all Sara's command is feminine, and has attached no masculinity to the character. Dudley Digges as Magnate Clevenger carries the impersonation to perfection without falling into the ever-present danger of exaggeration. The rest of the cast is so numerous and so uniformly good that no further special mention is possible...