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...patrols could give the Germans a powerful screen for an attempted crossing to the Caucasian mainland. Once there they would not only be in a position to wheel around and strike at the Don line from the rear, but could reach out for the oil fields around Maikop, less than 200 miles to the southeast...
...Friday night she will be escorted to the Memorial Half dance by Student Union officials. Miss Montez, whose screen fortunes are rising fast, comes from the Dominican Republic and speaks very little English...
...deepest deception the New Deal has practiced is in its use of national defense as a smoke screen behind which it plans to change the whole U.S. economy. The New Deal aim is to eliminate the small businessman as "an economic anachronism like the livery stable. . . . The answer that the New Dealers seek to our mechanized industrial civilization is big cartels, huge private monopolies managed by the State...
...Father Takes a Wife" is certainly the lesser half of the double bill qualitatively and qualitatively. For some strange reason. Gloria Swanson has been restored to the screen, but she should stood where...
...especially blundering, vulture-visaged Edward Everett' Horton and James Gleason, who does one of the funniest pantomime jobs since Charlie Chaplin hung up the baggy pants and Hitler mustache. Claude Rains, as Mr. Jordan (the Angel Gabriel in a streamline edition) gives one of the subtlest characterizations of recent screen history...