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William Powell's squeezable little wife Diana Lewis is currently the interest at the U.T., where the Marx Brothers are appearing in a movie. "Go West," a slap-sticky effort designed to make Horace Greeley regret his advice, succeeds in amusing more often than it bores. Worth-while if only for Harpo's solo on a blanket-loom...
...boss is the guy. Played by newcomer Edmond O'Brien, the boss looks very depressed as he sprawls behind his big desk, but when he joins the capers of Coffee Cup and Dot, he perks up like a puppy. All in all, it adds up to old-fashioned slap-happy...
...which is universally despised as a characteristic of Adolf Hitler: the failure to keep one's promises. If the campaign promise was sincere, there is no reason why it should be excluded from the Bill now. Its rejection would be a sinister tendency toward Hitlerism in America and a slap in the face to democracy...
...giggle. The band was going through all the motions: the swart, longish-haired leader led away; the brasses, the saxophones, the clarinets made a great show of fingering and blowing, but the only sound from the stage was a rhythmic swish-swish from the trap-drummer, a froggy slap-slap from the bull-fiddler, a soft plunk-plunk from the pianist. This, explained Leader Raymond Scott, was silent music...
Probably no other British consul ever became as popular in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Manhattan as did ruddy Sir Gerald Campbell, whose after-dinner stories have made hundreds of prominent U. S. businessmen slap their thighs. Canny Winston Churchill, having already picked Viscount Halifax as Ambassador to the U. S., last week plucked ebullient Sir Gerald from Ottawa, where he has lately been serving as High Commissioner* for the Mother Country, and assigned him to Washington-obviously as the perfect foil to austere, pallid, pious Lord Halifax...