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...school is student driven? It depends on the individual student's desire to learn? No, no, no! Everybody knows that success in school comes from megamillion-dollar tax levies, self-esteem classes, antidrug programs, smaller class sizes and more school psychologists and counselors. Persistence and hard work indeed! BEVERLEY SEITER Redmond, Wash...
Several rows back sits Elbert Seiter, 48. Seiter is a foreman for a trucking company. His face is deeply lined; an ironed shirt gleams white against sun-beaten skin. "I worked construction all my life, and it's rough," says Seiter. "This is a rough sport, and I like it." Karen Stoffel, a secretary with a finance company, is there too. She has come with her husband Gary, a trackman for the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway, and their daughter Courtney, 6. A heavyset woman with round, cheerful cheeks, Mrs. Stoffel says, "Wrestling is a release from...
Director William Seiter extracts some dry comedy from the Milquetoastian terror of the little clerk and from Venus' languid, Olympian indifference to the uproar she creates. Dick Haymes has a turn at the songs and Eve Arden is good as a secretary who understands her wolf of a boss all too well...
...takes a chance with making the cowboy (John Wayne) rather more than a nice boy, the lady (Jean Arthur) rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short of a new sort of realistic, deeply indigenous comedy. His picture is often crude, sometimes raw, but definitely worth seeing...
...Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...