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Heavy Mortgage. Fred Alger's error is a common one in Michigan because Soapy is an uncommon politician. From his office on the second floor of the state capitol in Lansing, Governor Williams runs Michigan with a fine air of democracy and honest folksiness. His office door is never closed, and newsmen are privileged to wander in & out of his "goldfish bowl" (as he calls it); they listen in on state conferences. Soapy detests pomp and formality, sends his three youngsters to Lansing public schools. He lives well within his $22,500-a-year salary: there is only...
...picture manages to capture some of Rogers' genial joshing and his common and uncommon sense on national and international affairs. (Samples: "Our foreign deals are like an open book, especially a checkbook"; "The U.S. never lost a war or won a peace.") To bolster its just-folks plot, the movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin...
Eric Linklater, in whose latest novel these uncommon scenes appear, explains with grinning relish. A Scotsman to the brisket, Linklater believes that English M.P.s have treated his native land so stingily that it is time they got a comeuppance. A onetime chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Linklater also knows his classical drama and how to make it a vehicle for his grouch. Laxdale Hall is a modern variation on Euripides' Bacchanals, in which sobersided King Pentheus is first treed, then torn apart by furious women because he has forbidden them to join in the orgies of the wine...
Worcester Tech, a fairly powerful small college nine, edged out the Jumbos in their most recent game, 4 to 2, and unless the team has one of its fairly uncommon "hot" games, the Crimson should end its own short losing streak...
...little of him think of him as a garrulous, facetious and easygoing nightbird whose one aim in life is to figure in the list of spurious personalities who make up café society. Those who have seen him from inside the circus know him as a stubborn man of uncommon determination, whose whole life is devoted to proving himself as big a man and a better showman than his uncle, John Ringling...