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Smack-General Justo's police pounced on 23 ringleaders in the Radical plot, called it "completely crushed." Smack- the President brushed aside an elaborate public ceremony at which he was to have turned over his powers to the Vice President before leaving Argentina. Since Roca was sick, let him stay in bed. A brief decree, signed without ceremony by General Justo at the last moment, gave bedridden Roca proper power. With bands blaring, banners flying and two regiments escorting him as a guard of honor, President Justo stepped aboard his special train at Buenos Aires and sped...
...book to its triumphant end. you will find that, without your knowing it, there will remain in your mind out of the hundreds of people who have passed before your eyes, certain unforgettable men and women, whose lives you have lived with them, across the seas and centuries." Plot in the Western sense there is none. A continuous narrative, it contains dozens of separate stories, 36 main characters, 72 minor...
...Cantor is at his best and in his element. At least a hundred chorines, charming specimens, surround him on several occasions: they dance or do setting-up exercises. There are catchy tunes, intricate routines for the chorus, and an ample amount of wisecracking humor. With a minimum of plot, the director relied on Ziegfeld's tactics for a musical extravaganza with considerable success...
...Possessed" is the other feature: it lacks originality in plot, direction, and in acting. I should add that the photography was adequate. If there's anything that's commonplace and soporific in the movies. It's the gold-digging wench who suddenly becomes repentant: no less so the rakish, unscrupulous politician who is at heart the best chap in the world...
This problem may have suggested the plot of Footlight Parade, about a dunce director who has a hard time thinking up new routines, finds that his rival promptly steals them. The novelty in the backstage romance in Footlight Parade consists in having it occur not in the wings of a theatre hut in a cinema studio where James Cagney is the dance director, Joan Blondell his affectionate secretary, Ruby Keeler his star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years...