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Commuter trains, which habitually lose money, are habitually dirty, uncomfortable, crowded, apt to be late-and generally a closer kin to Emett's famed Punch cartoons than to the glossy streamliners. The short-run trains are little better. For the smell of stale tobacco smoke, the sight of stained seat cushions, and close contact with orange peel, cigar butts, and sandwich wrappers, the U.S. offers nothing quite like a Pennsylvania Railroad day coach on the New York to Washington...
...pink neon sign-it might have been a sports arena, a warehouse or a hangar for tomorrow's giant rocket bomber-stood in the greyer part of grey Philadelphia. Along its long corridors and empty galleries, janitors toiled glumly amid drifts of paper cups, candy wrappers, newspapers and stale buns. As a band blurted out the first brassy music of the morning, the great main floor was only half filled...
Radio, once it grew up a little, scampered out of the kitchen as fast as it could. Television, being at the beginner's level, still spends a lot of its time in the kitchen. Most TV recipe shows are as flat as stale beer, but one stands out from the rest like a glistening grape in a flavorless aspic...
This oldtime, gosh-all-Friday comedy-drama is served up by people who obviously admire Writer-Director Preston Sturges and his cynical gift for playing both ends of a cliche against the audience's middle. Nothing is too stale or too simpleminded: a sheriff (William Demarest) trying to be heroic with one leg in a low-comedy plaster cast; a brat tormenting the neighborhood with trombone practice. But most of it is quite funny, and besides his feeling for slapstick and travesty, Director William Russell knows how to shade in some sharp authenticity. The most redolent blend of realism...
...Mars, Iowa, Western Union College got tired of the stale jokes, vexing confusions and crossed wires, after 48 years changed its name to Westmar College...