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barbed words that crackle across the screen give both sides of the family ample opportunity to display their flare for comedy — a virtue we are apt to overlook when considering Astaire and Rogers. For they really are consummate actors in addition to being consummate dancers. Just as their feet are timed perfectly to each other, so are their sharp words.No cleaner, neater dancing has ever been filmed than that by these two. They exercise a bit of satire in My One and Only Highland Fling. You will be carried back to the days of Top Hat with the lovely You’d Be Hard To Replace. And they really float out on the clouds with a new version of Thev Can’t Take ThatAwav From Me. Fred does his ♦*usual solo, a tricky number with animated shoes, that is above par.Ginger, born Virginia KatherineMcMath 37 years ago in Harry• _•S. Truman’s hometown, Independence, Mo., has been married | twice before. Her first in 1929 was to E. J. Culpepper, a vaude-j • ville actor. It lasted two years.|Lew Ayres, Des Moines, la., ac-jtor who now squires academy |award winner Jane Wyman, was Ginger’s second husband, but they were divorced in 1940.Briggs is 29, was born in Sehen-iectady, N. Y., and had some stock and radio experience in the east: before coming to Hollywood.INeed $68,297 ForAlso on the scene are Oscar Levant, the pal of the team and the fictional composer of their music, and Jacques Francois, with a wonderful bit as a French director of the dramatic art.As I said before, nil of us are a bit older- than when we last saw Ginger and Fred. But I know of no better way to feel younger than to see their 10th picture.Meade’s HospitalMeade — A budget of SOS,297 |has been proposed for the new-;ly created Meade hospital district jby the board of directors and a ; hearing on the proposal has been :set for Aug. 11.! The amount is for construction of the hospital. A $5,000 sum al-: ready has been set aside for pur-! chase of a site.I Directors said the hospital fund 'stands at $2,100.12. An ad valorem tax will raise $8,198.64 the first ■ year on the basis of a 1-mill levy. An additional $63,000 would be raided by public donations under I the existing plan.
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, Jul 31, 1949
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