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...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...Issued this week by the Harrisburg, Pa. Telegraph and Telegraph Press was a book which was to have been Candidate Long's big campaign publication. My First Days in the White House. Modeled after Upton Sinclair's I, Governor of California, but wittier, the book presents an imaginative narrative beginning with Huey Long's election to the Presidency, concludes with his setting up his Cabinet, among whom were: Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt; Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; Secretary of State, William F. Borah; Secretary of War, Smedley D. Butler; Secretary of the Treasury, James Couzens; Attorney General, Frank...
...year at Radcliffe, then studied with Georges Vitray in Paris, later at the Theatre Guild's defunct school under Winifred Lenihan. Critics, who had not seen her in Manhattan since 1932, applauded her sly caricatures of the U. S. scene, rated her less profound than Draper & Skinner, wittier than either. Some of the Howe Characters & Caricatures...
...what millions of cinema fans want-a beautiful heroine (Joan Crawford) and a handsome hero (Nils Asther) making love in a romantic setting (the mythical Kingdom of Kuremme). The spirit and most of the best lines are inspired by the "legit" play, The Command to Love. A little wittier than most dramas of a prince wavering between a throne and an actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys. She sends them in return...
Anyone who has struggled with French subjunctives or Spanish idioms will challenge the veracity of the World's editorial writer who is wittier than he is wise and funnier than he is either. As for dodging philosophy with social science--such manoeuvres have yet to be listed on the Harvard schedule of courses. Philosophy, far from being dodged, is usually what might be called the aid to dodging, since Freshmen have found that there are more ways of removing the mathematical requirements than taking Math A. Applied geometry sounds fascinating one wonders where it is taught. But when the dramatic...