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...women. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins says there are 6,800. "BoxCar Bertha," whose ghost-written autobiography appeared last week, doubles the estimate. Whether or not Bertha is always strictly accurate in her figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright was a mess. Her mother, a handsome blonde who advocated and practiced free love on her father...
...high spot in the season's light fun, was actually a new low in its star's uneven career did not constitute news. What did constitute news about the picture-which distressingly exhibits Miss Davies as a stenographer who hides her good looks under a dark wig and glasses in order to reform a young novelist (Robert Montgomery) who has fallen in love with her -was that it may be the last occasion for such painfully insincere reviewing. Reported disappointed with box-office receipts of the pictures Cinemactress Davies has made since Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved...
...wig and gown Sir Boyd Merriman,* presiding in Court last week, fussed about, patiently searching for some peccadillo or infraction. A small one would testify to his conscientiousness and not impede dismissal of the intervention. Suddenly he fastened upon the fact that Mrs. Simpson, although she had a flat in London, got her decree nisi out at rural Ipswich. Last week the judge badgered her Empire-famed and highly paid counsel, Norman Birkett, K. C., upon this point...
...legal ups-&-downs, the Opposition is given a curt inning. An actor, who evidently did not see dynamic young President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. in the MARCH OF TIME'S TVA sequence last year, dodders out as Mr. Willkie in a white wig to declaim: "The duplication of transmission systems and the giving of money from the Federal Treasury to cities to duplicate our distribution systems is undermining the credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum of Playwright Arent's show has carried...
...first-rate entertainment is a tribute to the finesse with which Director Henry Koster handled Adele Comandini's script and to the acting of an expert and experienced supporting cast. That the heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress who has now replaced Karloff as Universal's outstanding attraction, 14-year-old Deanna Durbin...