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...banner. And in Texas Peter Molyneaux's Texas Weekly declared: "There are millions of Americans who do not think President Roosevelt is indispensable, who believe that the wel fare and security of the United States will be better insured by the election of Mr. Willkie. . . ." The Right to Woo. All of this added up to a large amount of potential Willkie strength in the South, but it did not add up as yet to a single Southern vote for Willkie in the Electoral College. Whether such anti-New Deal sentiment will be converted into Willkie votes depends entirely...
...potential star. However, by a slight mistake in the front office, George Murphy is hired to be Eleanor Powell's male lead in her new show. Then comes trouble. Everything from ambitious amateur comediennes to a continually blotto George Murphy interrupts rehearsals--while Fred Astaire takes time out to woo Miss Powell, who, like Barkis, is willing'. The lines in "Broadway Melody" are clever, and several of the dance routines superb. But it is the work of Fred Astaire which makes this a green-light picture; he is a musical comedy all be himself...
...Germany and Italy to try to woo Turkey away from the Allies...
...just as trying. Willie Baxter's puppy passion for Lola Pratt, the Baby Talk Lady, who is "almost a divorced woman," and his adolescent antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning...
...woo Turkey into military alliance, Great Britain promised, among other things, to buy 20,000,000 Ibs. of Turkish tobacco per year for 20 years. In January Britain officially prohibited further purchases of U. S. tobacco...