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Spitfire (RKO), completed before Katharine Hepburn left Hollywood for her Manhattan stage appearance in The Lake, is an unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls...
...only one who spoke his mind was Edward Eugene Loomis, rugged president of Lehigh Valley, the late George Fisher Baker's closest friend. "Lehigh Valley does not need rails at this time," snorted Mr. Loomis. "Great days we're having now for hair-trigger planners and schemers! They bob up on every side. . . . All are hellbent upon forcing their plans into operation just as an experiment. That old-fashioned quality of business mind usually, though inadequately, referred to as common sense seems to be passing out of existence. I mourn its passing...
...York campaign. All of which merely reinforces Castor in his previous conclusion that Mr. Roosevelt is getting to feel encumbered by Secretary Farley, who, although he served well by the free lavish of his trick for inflaming Rotarians last November is a mite too fast on the trigger for political comfort. The anti-Tammany democracy would have done more wisely if they had supported LaGuardia and forgotten the specious McKee, for the Major will be too heavily saddled with his colleagues to undertake any really unpleasant reforms, and would thus combine safety for Roosevelt with boon for the metropolis...
...later Prince Michael turned up with a badly-bunged nose. Next day. while Carol of Rumania inspected a machine gun factory at Cluj, a General suddenly bawled an order with a voice like a bomb. The shout scared a soldier. The soldier twitched his fingers. His fingers jerked the trigger of a machine gun. B-B-R-R-R-AM ! A dozen bullets whizzed post King Carol's nose. In Rochester. Minn, four surgeons from famed Mayo clinic boarded a chartered plane shortly before 8 p. m., flew 500 miles to Detroit, motored 51 more miles to Chatham...
After living in sin with the Trigger, the upright young lawyer who had proposed to her, finds them. She shoots the Trigger who had killed the drunken boy and comes to trial before her father, a rugged judge. It all turns out nicely and the audience goes home happy. One hears that George Raft refused to take the nasty part, fearing to get a snaky reputation and be hissed by the kiddies like William Powell or Wallace Berry...