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...from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes it ridiculous or by the presence of a character who does not belong in it. As a taxidriver, a ship's steward, and finally a castaway on a desert island, Oakie through the rambling plot has nothing to satirize; the only way that he can satirize the tedious job of being funny all the time is by being inadvertently dull for long stretches. People who find the picture outmoded in its song and chorus numbers may be reminded that Let's Go Native...
Argentina. Loudest alarums, most violent excursions came from Buenos Aires where a timorous cabinet suddenly decided that a military plot threatened the life of ancient, eccentric President Hippolito Irigoyen (nearly 80 years old, though he looks ten years younger). They persuaded him to mobilize the Army & Navy. Machine guns were mounted on the roof of the cigar store over which he prefers to live. Seven warships steamed into the harbor. From Campo Mayo, the 8th Cavalry clattered into town with full equipment to strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only...
Through the dingy parts of London, beloved of authors and others, pleasantly rambles this latest novel of J. B. Priestley. Characters and plot are both unexciting and vaguely familiar, but their simplicity is followed out with such a happy fertility of notions that one spends hour upon hour completely pleased. There is much reminiscent of Dombeys and Forsytes, but this book is content with a more humble standard of artistic verity, and if for that reason the thousands are less appreciative, the tens of thousands will be the more delighted...
...Howard's. When Ivy came into his room later to bring Howard salvation, the love of God and the love of Howard became hysterically confused, and Ivy was lost once more. Playwright Nicholson uses the person of Carl, strapping young Salvationist, to make his drama go the Thais plot one better...
...piece was the first from the pen of Mary a Mannes Mielziner, niece of Walter Damrosch, wife of Jo Mielziner, famed stage-setting designer. At no time did the dialog, action or story of Cafe rise above the general quality level of the littlest little theatre. Nub of the plot: Maurice Larned (Rollo Peters) fled from a U.S. wife, met and lived with Sally Burch of Akron, was pursued by Jane Geddes, also from Akron who sought to redeem him. Maurice's wife came to get him, Jane's brother came to get Jane. She, however, had become hopelessly attached...