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...Miss Harding's womanly but determined bludgeoning of the role Ina Claire gaily aired on the Manhattan stage. Montgomery succeeds most of the time in keeping his celebrated winsomeness under control. When at literary work he wears a pair of horn-rimmed glasses with a Harold-Lloydish air. Funniest scene: Horton explaining why he cannot make an honest woman of Ann Harding...
LITTLE ORVIE ? Booth Tarkington ? Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Tribulations of a U. S. seven-year-old; Maestro Tarkington at his funniest, best, most authoritative...
Every smile-raising writer, from Dickens to Wodehouse, would envy Author Waugh many a scene, many a character in this book. Like other less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must...
...took the post a year ago last May, hoping that it would be for no more than a three-months' leave of absence from his regular job, Governor of the Atlanta Reserve Bank. One significance of his coming ? besides the fact that he was by all odds the funniest-looking man in the Administration ? was that by his personal popularity he softened the New Deal's animus towards bankers and vice versa. A second greater significance was that he acted as a shock absorber be tween the banking system and the Administration, pressing for sound finance, yielding...
...pair of the explorer's lions, watch a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Produced from a script by Arthur Kober and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's smart Publicity Chief Howard Dietz, who has written Manhattan musical shows for the past five years, Hollywood Party should have been one of the funniest pictures of the season. That most of its antics turn out to be curiously dreary may be due to the fact that cinemusicomedy demands more continuity of plot than Hollywood Party contains; that M-G-M instead of assigning a director to supervise the whole production, had bits made under...