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...Passed the Army Appropriation Bill which provides for 1938 military expenditures totalling $416,413,382, a peacetime record. Sent it to the Senate. ¶Passed bills providing appropriations of $700 each for gold medals to be presented to Actor George M. Cohan, for his Wartime pepsong Over There, and Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth for his explorations, sent them to the Senate...
...then examines the career of the exception-Esther Victoria Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) who, the day she arrives on the Coast, financed by her grandmother's nest egg, tiptoes into the outer lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and stands tremulously in the cement footprints of her favorite actor, Norman Maine. From this point on, the story of A Star Is Born does not differ in superficial outline from the story that has been told a hundred times, usually as an excuse for weak screen musicals...
...Janet Gaynor, whose artistic growth in the past five years has not been noticeable, A Star Is Born supplies a role comparable to her Seventh Heaven (1927), but it is really Fredric March whose casting was a Selznick master stroke. An intelligent actor who studies his roles carefully, March's work in the past has often had, perhaps on this account, an elusive but annoying artificiality. In A Star Is Born this false note becomes precisely the true one required to make his performance in the role of actor the best since his similar job in The Royal Family...
...adapted by A. E. Thomas from a Don Marquis play, Good Old Soak is a minor vehicle for Actor Beery's Piltdown pathos and the efforts of a supporting cast which somehow seem even below MGM's post-Thalberg standard. Typical shot: Beery rubbing his nose...
...looks and acts dumb but in truth is far too smart for him and his girl friends, whom she converts by a great display of sheer innocence into her friends instead of his. Actor MacKenna (Merrily We Roll Along, Accent on Youth) has been playing erring dramatists so long he should be able to present the required blend of boyish and goatish behavior even though in the throes of somnambulism. Linda Watkins (June Moon) is equally adept at impersonating the girl whose shrewdness is masked by wide-open eyes and naive questions. Between them, they should manage to keep Penny...