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...week's end the President put aside the cares of office to play host to 31 friends and schoolmates of Diana Hopkins on her tenth birthday, and, while the adventures of Dumbo unreeled on the White House screen, over & above the piping of school girls' squeaks, the President's hearty laughter boomed...
...four Davidson brothers, who call themselves "Dentists to American Hens," last week tested $20,000 worth of new machinery which they had got after a long fight with the Office of Production Management. They got the machines in the name of defense. Their purpose: to crush and screen the Stonemo Granite Grit which is the Davidson brothers' contribution to the health of the U.S. chicken...
...entire upper level of the spacious Copley Plaza ballroom will be transformed into a typical South American bar with plenty of space to lounge about and watch the many stage and screen stars perform during the evening...
...producers could probably have filmed a hit if they interspersed glimpses of the Boston telephone directory to sustain the plot interest. Every ditty that horse-and-buggy gramophones ground out is here, from "Tiger Rag" to "After the Ball" and "My Melancholy Baby." With a couple of the screen's best song-pluggers, Mary Martin and Bing Crosby, to do the honors, these old--but not outworn--Hit Paraders pack all the punch, plus a good deal more nostalgia, than they had in their prime...
...Never Get Rich" is not worth so much in itself as it is as a promise of good things to come; this duo, with some careful handling, should work out to be one of the screen's most attractive and entertaining couples. Robert Benchley is mildly funny, though he seems a bit tired of it all. And there are a couple of good tunes that might, now that B. M. I. and ASCAP are buddies, find their way to the hit parade...