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...applause lasted longer than the song itself. She followed it with the somewhat bigger Barbara Allen. Then she sang an old Irish song, and a Scotch ballad with a bit of a burr. For her encore she brought out a zither, and broke into the jingling Foggy, Foggy Dew, which another Barney Josephson find, tubby Troubadour Burl Ives, has made...
Christmas In Connecticut (Warners), for all its rattle and redolence of mothballs, is thoroughly moth-eaten. The caprice involves Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall and a couple of babies who, though too young to know any better, are going to have quite a time living it down. The predicament: Miss Stanwyck, a highly publicized writer of recipes for a woman's magazine, has been pretending to her avid public (and to her honest publisher, Mr. Greenstreet) that she is a Connecticut country housewife, mother and cook. When the publisher insists that she entertain...
...Artists) is chiefly notable as Bing Crosby's first effort as a producer. It dutifully records the Boston Strong Boy (Greg McClure) as he rises to fame and florid magnanimity - through his unhappy marriage with a betighted showgirl (Linda Darnell), his un happy love for a Boston girl (Barbara Britton), his still unhappier fondness for training on Black Velvet (champagne & stout) and the inevitable consequences at the hands of Jim Corbett. After that came his long, pitiful period as an alcoholic has-been and his ultimate salvation - with the Boston lady's warm approval - as a temperance lecturer...
...best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!" bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty summoned him back from shore leave. "It will take me away from you," he told his gorgeous wife Barbara (the future Duke of Wellington's sister). "Darling," she answered, "six months of the kind of happiness you have given me is more than any woman deserves." A few days later, Sir Horatio, flying a commodore's pendant, was beat ing up the Channel in the 900-man ship of the line Nonsuch, followed by two sloops, two bomb...
James G. Trager, Jr.-Barbara Gordon (Radcliffe...