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...third version of the late Sidney Howard's 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinning play, is principally a distinguished directorial exercise with three notable characterizations. A mustache, black curly hair, a soup-thick Italian accent hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin...
...campaign had taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be heading toward the two-cent simplicities of Zowie! and Wham! (TIME, Oct. 14). For the first time, a public debater made a direct hit on Wendell Willkie, with a tomato. Many a verbal tomato, many an ancient egg, whizzed through...
...Angeles he was hailed by one of the largest political gatherings in history. 2. At San Francisco he said Roosevelt dynamited the 1933 London Economic Conference. 3. At Portland, Ore. he endorsed Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams. 4. At Pontiac, Mich. he was hit by a ripe tomato. 5. At Coffeyville he wrote "No Third Term-Wendell Willkie...
Newshawk Robert C. Albright, Washington Post, remembered that this was the last week of the tomato season. Everyone felt better. And now the familiar scene occurred again: in downtown Toledo, Wendell Willkie was welcomed screamingly, like a combination of Lincoln and Clark Gable, by another ecstatic, confetti-and-hurrah audience...
Night the exhibition opened, 1,000 Detroit socialites braved wintry winds to attend. By week's end 2,500 gallerygoers from as far away as San Francisco and Baltimore had followed them. To add to the U. S. atmosphere, Cranbrook provided U. S. tomato plants in window boxes, U. S. music, Rhine wine flavored to taste like U. S. new-mown...