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...even less intelligent than cinemaddicts, Hello, Everybody! does not even ask its audiences to imagine Kate Smith as anyone except Kate Smith. She is shown first on a farm, crooning to the horses and pigs, joking with the hired man. When a power company threatens to build a dam that will destroy the arable land for miles around, Kate Smith (Kate Smith) accepts an offer to croon professionally to get money to fight the power company in court. The latter part of the picture shows Kate Smith broadcasting in Manhattan, contains close-ups of her porcine countenance illuminated by spurious...
...director, Alexander Macharet, has embellished his small chronicle of earnest endeavor by the foreman of a construction gang. This foreman (Nicholas Okhlopkov) is chipper about his methods and proud of his efficiency until a U. S. engineer arrives to work in the same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing, in one sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were...
...domestic legislator, his greatest single achievement was the Boulder Canyon Project Act which he turned into an onslaught upon the 'Tower Trust." [His satisfaction soured when the project's name was changed to Hoover Dam.] As a good Californian, he votes for top-notch duties to protect Californian products, seeks to exclude all Filipinos...
...arrival of H. R. 13,312 before the House was an awful moment for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated. To them it marked the end of an era during which their power over Congress and the country had been practically supreme. The great dam they had built against the "liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult...
...place of conception, demands only birth on U. S. soil* Well beyond it went the American Kennel Club, meeting last week in Manhattan, in revising qualifications for the ''American-bred" dogs. Under present regulations the pup has only to be born in the U. S. of a dam U. S.-owned at the time of her mating. Many a U. S. fancier buys a bitch in Europe, breeds her there, takes her home before her time (63 days). "After Feb. 7, ruled the Club, both mating and whelping must take place in the U. S. Hoped...