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...Smith Goes to Washington. Pauline Kael once asked whether Frank Capra had an honest bone in his body. Even hearing the question is a crusher, for if Capra is a calculating manipulator, then who is left? To be sure, he was sly behind the camera: Graham Greene wrote that he was the best propagandist since Eisentstein. Greene's proof lay in Capra's exposition of Edward Arnold in his pictures. Hardly anyone has ever done justice to the memory of Arnold, Capra's bloated symbol of all that was wrong with America in three consecutive celebrations of his defeat...
...book's beginning could have been in a Frank Capra film like "Meet John Doe" where powerful men in evening clothes sit around having brandy and cigars after dinner and listen to D.B. Norton--a Ronald Reagan figure if there ever was one, say: "There's been too much permissiveness in this country, too much loose talk. America needs an iron hand." To which the men, archetypal 1930s lounge lizards with beautifully cut moustaches and social registers in their back pockets, respond: "Hear, hear, quite right, D.B." and thump on the table in a hollow variant of old-time prep...
...ATLANTA--Just a notch below L.A. and Cincinnati, the Braves have an all-round solid club that could challenge for a title in any other division. Pitchers Phil Niekro and Buzz Capra led the league in lowest ERA, while batting champ Ralph Garr and third baseman Darrell Evans supply the offensive force...
Gabts A Clark Gable triple feature at Gund Hall. It Happened One Night by Frank Capra and with Claudette Colbert is the best. Also Wife vs. Secretary with Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart, made in 1923. And San Francisco with Spencer Tracy and Jeanette Mac Donald, who tries to sing "San Francisco, open your Golden Gate." There's a great earthquake scene near...
...Capra's Lest Hertron, with Ronald Colman, Friday and Saturday...