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...White House where "Silent Cal" Coolidge once volubly tried to relieve his shyness; or whether he remembered the Library of Congress, where once, with an injured arm, he shook hands for hours with thousands of people until, the pain becoming unbearable, he quietly excused himself, went behind a screen and fainted. Then he had been the coming King-Emperor, toasted, courted, toadied to as no other man has been in the 20th Century; now he was a lonely exile, Governor of The Bahamas, flyspeck-islands important chiefly to another country than his own. He told the National Press Club...
Today and tomorrow bring the last half of the U.T.'s high-pressure cram session for undernourished addicts. With machine-gun precision, four famous pictures will be dragged up from the libraries of the past and shown on the local screen. All this for the price of one ticket...
...quite a show. Last week, in a vast, high-ceilinged courtroom in Brooklyn, the scene was thrown on the screen for the jury. Duquesne was there, in the prisoners' dock; he looked at himself on the screen with interest. His gestures, especially the one with the imaginary rifle, brought a snicker from the audience. The other 15 defendants (17 of the 33 had pleaded guilty) had no such stellar roles as the trial rolled on and the case, unlike the movie, slowly proceeded. The U.S. had not yet learned from the trial how effective Nazi espionage...
Father Takes a Wife (RKO Radio) is tailored to measure for almond-eyed Gloria Swanson, making her reappearance on the screen after seven years. A sophisticated comedy with enough snap in its dialogue and situations to earn a passing grade, it demands only a minimum performance from the hard-eyed, prognathous beauty who was once queen of the silent movies...
...popular Brandon Thomas farce from which the screen play was adapted is one of the most successful stage plays of all times with more performances on the professional and amateur stage than any play except Hamlet. The well-known lead is a crank at Oxford who in his tenth year as an undergraduate tries to help a couple of pals out of a hole by impersonating the aunt of one of them. As a chaperone who needs a chaper-one herself, ah himself, Benny spends the evening trying to get into the amorous clutches of his pals' financees...