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...Duchy of Cornwall, and Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe, onetime equerry to Edward as Prince of Wales, who will serve as Best Man. The fact that Sir Walter is a rich man with an important private practice and that Fruity Metcalfe has retired from the Army did not spoil the popularity of the gesture. Later the Counselor of the British Embassy at Paris and the British Consul at Nantes were allowed to accept on the excuse that witnessing the wedding was part of their official duties...
...Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil. Finally, purple with rage, spewing rotten potatoes behind him, Captain Jones put out to sea again, officially to return to Britain. All the other Joneses wagered he would make one more attempt to get through to Bilbao...
...Winchell-Bernie feud has hardly been improved by having been filmed in "Wake Up and Live". Walter and Ben exhibit much animosity for each other, but spoil the effect by billing and cooing in the climax...
...seen it done before, but the present cast and Boleslawki's direction make it sufficiently diverting. It is not up to some of its predecessors, but compared to "Dangerous Number" it is brilliant--or will be if seeing "Dangerous Number" first doesn't make you made and spoil it for you. "The Last of Mrs. Creyney" is perhaps a bit overlengthy, too, but it keeps you laughing most...
...Kraska assures us in his advance circular that Fraulein Bergner has acted the part of Rosalind in the legitimate theatre a tremendous number of times. If this is true it is just unfortunate. There was nothing, well, almost nothing, that Miss Bergner could do to spoil one's enjoyment of "As You Like It" that she did not do. She spoke her lines with a heavy German accent, rendering at least half of them unintelligible. She simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with...