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...Fanning hadn't been so passionate deep down, it would hardly have mattered that she was so prim & proper on the outside. In the North Carolina of the 1880's, where a lady wore her skirts to the ground and refused a suitor twice before deigning to accept him, Ora bounced solemnly after the Methodist minister, pretending to be engrossed in good works, but caring mainly about his looks. Preacher David Humiston found Ora's trim figure as attractive as her piety but, as he sententiously declared, he could not take a wife until God had prompted...
...Herbert, wit, poet and longtime M.P. (see PERSONALITY), assessed the future of a blonde, green-eyed London chorus girl in a little verse titled The Third from the Right. Last week, a quarter-century later, Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham, although she long ago refused the titled suitor, found herself still in Spot No. 3. Just to the right of her in the new and different kind of chorus line stood, in order of rank, Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons, queen of Hollywood gossipists, and Hedda Hopper, undisputed heiress apparent to Lolly-until Sheilah came along to contest the succession...
Scriptwriter Naoya Uchimura and Producer Hiroshi Nagayama had done their best to get Eriko married off. Last year they had it all set: Eriko and her suitor would wed, live happily ever after, off the airwaves. But radio men at the U.S. Civilian Information & Education office were horrified, adamantly "recommended" that the show go on. Eriko, they felt, had a mildly democratizing influence on listeners. Says Nagayama: "It was most sorrowful. We couldn't fight back; it was practically an order." Dutifully, Uchimura wrote the groom out of the script, replaced him with a dawdling suitor who would obviously...
...sucker for the most faded verbal orchid from the most cynical suitor. The worst book will get his best notices if he is favorably mentioned in it ... He feels compelled on all occasions to remind the world that he is a central figure in the history of the 20th century. 'One hundred years from now I'm the only newspaperman they'll remember,' he told a private audience ... He depicts himself as the eternal friend of the underdog ... his only requirement is that the underdog remain forever on his leash...
...Sherman as the cynical libertine has the best lines in the show, and his underplaying is effective. James Young, the confused young lover, is adequate in a straightforward role. Lester Mack also appears briefly as the girl's high-principled father. He bursts in belligerently, flattens his daughter's suitor, and then returns to the pinochle game backstage...