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...Take It With You" and again Saturday in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." These two Frank Capra comedies are probably the week's most enjoyable offerings. With them go "The Invaders"--Raymond Massey, Lawrence Olivier, and Leslie Howard dealing with a German submarine invasion--and "Welcome Stranger," termed "a warm and human tale" by the management, which probably found the money brought in by Crosby, Caulfield, and Barry Fitzgerald the most warm and human element in the whole thing...
...more than the customary fifteen minutes to argue our way past the same ticket taker we had to argue our way past for the Annual Flower Show, The Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...
...editors of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, the beefy, flashily dressed stranger introduced himself as Bob Patterson, an all-round newshand. He'd just breezed in from Atlanta, he said, via Hollywood, where he had written Brute Force for Mark Hellinger. He wanted...
...good behavior, he headed for Oklahoma City. In the law offices of Richardson, Shartel, Cochran & Pruet, he found his man, now a prosperous oil lawyer. Godbey spotted him in the hall, blurted out, "I have a divorce case." For a minute, Lawyer Pruet eyed the stooped, grey-haired stranger. Then he turned away, muttering "Wait a minute." Godbey drew a .38 and shot Pruet in the back twice, walked out of the office and vanished into the late afternoon crowd...
...after Christmas that the first menacing signs appeared. The snow waned under furious rains, fought back for one cold night, and then slipped down the drains. For once, the Almighty had come to the rescue of James M. Curley, and had taken away what He had put there. But stranger things were in store: the thermometers climbed to the fifties, resort owners tore their hair, and each succeeding day brought a strange bright glare to the usually gray skies...