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...Angels are four sisters of that name in Glenby Falls, N.Y. They want to help their widowed father buy a farm where he can indulge his passion for raising soybeans. Nancy Angel (Dorothy Lamour) wants to be an artist, Bobby (Betty Hutton) an ace reporter, Patti (Mimi Chandler) a Shakespearean actress, Josie (Diana Lynn) a composer. Between daydreams and quarrels they pick up spare cash by staging musical acts at a local roadhouse. There they run afoul of a transient bandleader, Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who promptly advises Cinemactress Lamour: "Let's not fight this thing...
...pale and weedy Cambridge student then: a Boer-accented colonial, fresh from the schools of the Cape Colony, a grave and talented adolescent with a passion for reciting Prometheus Unbound, an enthusiasm for the Empire-building of Cecil Rhodes. From Cambridge he went back to the South Africa of diamond fields and booming gold mines, of growing friction between British and Boers, who had trekked northward from the Cape to the Transvaal to free their rude, patriarchal, Bible-reading lives of uitlander (foreign) rule...
Boiled Chicken Politics. The King could be controlled through his passion for boiled chicken; Alberoni sent him one every day. The Queen was both gluttonous and fussy. For her Alberoni imported Italian cheese, wine, ravioli, truffles and gooseberries (he insisted to the Duke of Parma that they were vital to the security of Italy). No matter how busy he might be with domestic and foreign affairs, the culinary Cardinal never failed to dash to the royal palace at mealtimes to cook the Queen her favorite dishes. If she did not see eye to eye with him on policy, Alberoni would...
...singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya, who has nothing to do with the plot, dances powerfully, continues to convey passion by making faces as if her partner had just trod on her corns. Kurt Weill's score has moments notably the gay-sad September Song, that suggest his great Die Dreigroschenoper...
...Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...