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...With a sob in his voice and a look at the record, Governor W. Lee O'Daniel last week jumped into the Texas Senatorial campaign. There are now 21 candidates. O'Daniel's joining them made the State's special election this month, to find a successor to the late, great Prohibitionist Morris Sheppard, the biggest U.S. political show since the Presidential campaign last fall...
...slow-moving, maudlin, and embarassingly over-done in spots. As a serious warning to America that a Democracy is not altogether safe from some of its own power-craving citizens, it is rather well-timed and forcefully presented. And lastly, as a humorous love story about a newspaper sob sister and an erstwhile tramp, the picture is well-acted, well-written, and definitely up to previous Capra standards...
Next day sleek "Roarin' Bob" Reynolds of North Carolina took the floor, held forth for two and a half hours of teary, sob-voiced argument for isolation. Said Senator Reynolds: Hitler is no more of a menace to the U. S. than Napoleon was in 1808. He insisted that the bill had nothing to do with the defense of the U. S., proposed sarcastically that its title should be changed to: "A Bill for the Defense of the British Empire at the Expense of the Lives of American Men and at the Expense of the American Taxpayer...
When Miss McBride fluttered into radio, she had behind her an impressive career as a sob sister. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she had worked on the Ledger in Mexico, Mo., the Cleveland Press, the late New York Evening Mail. She had done work for the Interchurch World Movement, turned out articles for the Saturday Evening Post, collaborated with Prince Christopher of Greece on the history of his family. Back in the creative groove again, she has just turned out a book on her childhood called How Dear to My Heart...
Intertwining some of the best musical scores in years, some of the thickest of sob stuff plus a few of Mickey Himself Rooney's finest facial turmoils and Krupa-like drumming, Busby Berkeley has concocted an acceptable movie in "Strike Up the Band...