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Diana, to avoid letting down her fiance, goes to join him and her brother (Franchot Tone) in France. On hearing a report of Bogard's death in flying school, she goes to live sinfully with Claude. When the report turns out to be false, she is placed in a quandary which her two admirers try as darkly as possible to solve. First Bogard takes Claude on a bombing trip in his plane, rather hoping that he will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow...
...m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...
Walter Huston, who got practice for his rôle by playing Presidents Grant and Lincoln in earlier cinemas, tries a little too hard to look like a Hearst cartoonist's idea of a benevolent dictator, but he sounds impressive. A little disappointing is the performance of Franchot Tone-the ablest young stage actor who migrated to Hollywood from Broadway last year-in a rôle which requires him to supply simultaneously romantic interest and the austerity proper to his station...
...Lloyd McKin Garrison Prize of $175 has been divided between Stanislas Pascal Franchot '32, of Boston, for his poem "Prelude to the Twilight of the West" and James Rufus Agee '32, of Rockland, Maine, for his group of poems. Both men will get silver medals. Honorable mention goes to C. L. Sultzberger '34, R. M. Hatch '33, and Keith Martin...
...block away, in the lobby of the Guild Theatre, Actors Franchot Tone and Margeret Barker spoke into a microphone lines from their roles in The House of Connelly (TIME, Oct. 12). The audience in the Broadway Theatre expected to hear and to see Actors Tone and Barker simultaneously, by television...