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When Mrs. Hilton, to make ends meet, takes in a roomer, he is Monty Woolley, a retired colonel almost as crustily beaverish as The Man Who Came to Dinner, but a lot nicer to have around. His G.I. grandson is Robert Walker, all feet, thumbs and fumbling charm. Miss Jones (in real life the former Mrs. Walker) falls in love with him and gives him self-confidence. Another visitor is the Hilton's dearest friend, Naval Lieutenant Joseph Gotten. Rejected by Miss Colbert, he has become a perennial bachelor...
...parades, gifts, interminable speeches by civic officials, a night appearance in a local park with 10,000 fans pushing through police lines, a tour of the city in an open Packard. From the sidelines the hero could hear shrieking girls awarding the ultimate in bobbysock tributes: "He's nicer than Frankie...
...once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of the Weimar Republic told him to run along and find nicer playmates...
...names at the Globe are much nicer, but the show isn't too much better than the Old Howard. A person called Noma-Ma-Ha-Ja, an Indian Nationalist we suspect, exposes herself judiciously along with the 30 Globettes...
...sociological treatise, Lucky Jordan shows that U.S. gangsters are infinitely nicer than Nazis because 1) they are Americans, 2) they do not like to "go around beating up old women...