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That should have coiled the rope unknotted still...
Thrifty, earthy Alsace parents sent young Pétain through St. Cyr military academy, later left him a small fortune. He took on the prevailing St. Cyr color-reaction, royalism, distrust of politics. He also developed a love of off-tune brass bands, climbing trees, skipping rope, floating paper boats in a tub of water, watching animals...
...customers get a good run of gags. Says Hope, rope-netted to a dromedary's side: "I never thought I'd end up in a camel's snood." The chinny comedian also does a female impersonation. Crosby, who marks his tenth movie anniversary with this film, celebrates the occasion by being in customary good voice. Best Numbers: Moonlight Becomes You, Constantly. Dorothy Lamour will probably pick up a few more votes as the Army's favorite pin-up girl...
...Konig-stein prison was told last spring it was so fabulously like an Alfred Hitchcock cinema that most observers were disbelieving. It was said that the weighty, 63-year-old warrior, having assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British, who sent a plane to Switzerland for him, but that before it arrived...
...wizened little Scotchman named "Scotty" with the degree of R.E.W. (rope escape wizard), amused a large crowd of Deacons last night in the Kirkland Junior Common Room by escaping from the bonds he begged to be trussed...