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Lantern in the Belfry. In Washington, Langer soon got a reputation for being long on wind and trivial proposals, short on judgment and accomplishment; he was on almost all lists of the ten worst Senators. Among the bills he introduced was one to issue a special series of stamps to encourage mailing of good-will letters. This year, when Winston Churchill was coming to the U.S., Langer asked the vicar of Old North Church in Boston to place a lantern in the belfry to give the U.S. a Paul Revere warning. But worst of all, by Midwest Republican standards, Langer...
Three new movies set their trivial doings against large landscapes...
Also funny, in a completely different way, is Rex Harrison in the co-feature, Notorious Gentlemen. Harrison plays a young ne'r-do-well of the 30's who is "sent down" from Oxford, fired from a few jobs, and fined in court for a trivial offense. Not satisfied with all this, Harrison drives through at least four women, a small fortune, and some international auto races, finally ending up as a war casualty. The plot is simple, little more than the above, and enjoyable...
...Manhattan, Critic George Jean Nathan, 70, an amateur baseball fan, told the New York Times that there were some things still beneath his notice: "I take no interest in politics . . . It is the diversion of trivial men, and when they succeed at it, they become important in the eyes of more trivial...
...last weeks of his life go by, the passionate questions become more & more trivial ("Is barley syrup made from barley?"), the obsessive topics more & more Promethean and miserable ("The cowards, to keep an unarmed man imprisoned upon a rock!"). The books and encyclopedias on his tables are replaced by syringes and bowls, bottles of orange-flower water, gentian, licorice, quinine and calomel. The doctors hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting...