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...pays better than the Vice-Presidency ($10,000 plus $15,000 in perquisites, against $15,000 for the Vice-Presidency), and Warren has a family of six children to consider. If the Republicans lost, he would be nowhere; if they won, he would have the dull, gavel-rapping, Throttlebottom job that only a President's death makes important. But to preside over the destinies of California in the next four years will be not only one of the nation's most important jobs, but one of the most exciting...
...Charlie Chaplin's long-awaited "production No. 6" features the little comedian in the role of: 1. Lemuel Gulliver. 2. Baron Munchausen. 3. Hitler. 4. Don Quixote. 5. A Vice-President of the U. S. named Throttlebottom...
...song and herself over at the same time. Victor Moore, of course, is one of those things like Strauss waltzes and wire-haired terrier puppies that only a confirmed sourpuss could dislike. His Senator Loganberry takes rank with his Ambassador Goodhue and his Vice President Throttlebottom. A dazed, roly-poly babe-in-the-wood, he is probably surprised that he casts a reflection in a mirror. He has never been better than when, dressed as a fat Roman Senator for the Mardi Gras, he wails helplessly...
...photographer's life is really as electric as Mr. Gable's portrayal would have you think. It can't be all burning ships and wars and jungles; doesn't Photographer Gable ever have to shoot the Sweepstake winners, or the first snowfall, or Santa Claus, or third assistant secretary Throttlebottom's speech, you wonder. However, Mr. Gable has the wonderful ability to grin convincingly even when the joke is on himself. And who wouldn't go to South America with Miss Loy? Heck, even the savages in "Too Hot To Handle" are dandy...
...cinemaddicts to whom the release of any Rogers-Astaire vehicle does not automatically constitute the major news of the week, this one may do so on the ground that in it Comedian Victor Moore, whose impersonation of Vice President Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing gained him more fame than has ever fallen to any actual, holder of that office, makes his screen debut...