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...Groom Wore Spurs (Fidelity; Universal-International) tries to poke fun at a singing cowboy movie star (Jack Carson) who is a bit of a stinker, fears horses and cannot sing. Though the idea seems worth a farce, it is clumsily turned, geared to a creaky romance (involving Ginger Rogers as a lawyer) and powered by melodramatic nonsense. The joke proves to be not so much on western heroes as on Hollywood farceurs...
...What a stinker Cyril Joad...
...companies manufacturing everything from automobiles to candy bars. Last week, after ten years' work with 180,000 employees of 127 companies, he summed up his findings: "Management has failed to be the kindly protective father, so the union has become the caressing mother who gets things from that stinker of a father...
Eventually teen-aged Paul, who thinks Dad is a stinker, pays his first visit to the gaming tables and sees Dad give a demonstration of character. Coolly and courteously, Gable stakes the entire family fortune on a throw of dice-and wins. That is enough for Paul. As a couple of gunmen close in on the swag, Paul springs to his father's side, a true blue chip off the old block...
...with us a Negro boy, Tad McKinley. (But Tad is expelled a week before his graduation for making love to his girl at Spring Prom.) Happily, our new Council President is a fine lad, Buddy Brown; we're sure Buddy will do a fine job. (Buddy is a little stinker, but we treat him kindly because his father is a Very Influential...