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...sitting room was the real goal of the Democrats who trod the path of Term III, a tan-walled bedroom with green-spread twin beds, a screen, a telephone wire direct to the White House...
...gang," Fascists of all stripes struggling to get control of the State. Ex-President Albert Lebrun had departed for Switzerland. The Hotel du Pare, headquarters of the Government, was packed with visitors, politicians, newsmen. Marshal Petain held court in a corner of the lounge, ate behind a screen in the hotel dining room. Dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval dashed off communiqués, handed them out personally in the lobby. Early each morning an airplane took off from Vichy, headed northeast toward Wiesbaden, Germany, where the Armistice Commission...
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) marks Mickey Rooney's ninth appearance as bratty Andy Hardy, his first since he was crowned King of the Screen and the No. 1 box-office attraction of the U. S. cinema. More believable as Andy than as young Tom Edison, Cinemactor Rooney mugs his way from Carvel to Manhattan to make good on a boast that he is acquainted with a glamorous bud named Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis). The Judge (Lewis Stone), nominally heading the expedition, is engaged on a legal chore thoroughly in keeping with the Hardy character: protecting...
...Dublin newspaperman, Brent left home and the Abbey Theatre when the British asked too many questions about his activities as a dispatch runner for the Irish Republican Army, has answered few questions since. He got a Hollywood job after making 31 unsuccessful screen tests, which he believes is the record. Because he had played a Broadway bit with Clark Gable and had broad shoulders, publicity men billed him as another Gable. Unlike Actor Gable and the majority of his colleagues, he never talks to fan magazine writers, spurns nightclubs, carries his dislike of Hollywood parties to the point of rudeness...
...Seeking to emulate radio, which got its first big lift from the 1924 Democratic Convention, television backers gave their product its first big play. Individual close-ups of speakers showed up well on the screen; long shots were fuzzy...