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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1940
Page
40
A humor-tinged collage presents boxing manager scolding a fading star for excess road life and the fighter’s drunken rebuttal. A wife sues a cheap hypnotist husband over canary talk turns into courtroom punchlines. A diner encounter yields a quip on lunch though the man claims “This is my lunch.”
Entertainment notes praise The Road to Singapore with Bing Crosby Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour delivering lively laughs and tuneful songs. The House Across the Bay featuring George Raft and Joan Bennett earns mixed tempo praise while Millionaire Playboy satisfies Joe Penner fans with solid laughs.
Harry Jackson schemes to woo Henrietta Wilson by exploiting her husband Robert’s illness and a $15,000 inheritance. After Robert dies from sleeping-powder overdose, Harry marries Henrietta but learns the money is gone to secure a tombstone he did not deserve, ending in a callous conspiracy.
Louis Sobol surveys notable figures at age seventeen with glimpses of Roosevelt Stalin Mussolini Capra and others in early life. The piece recalls Booth Tarkington studying at Exeter and Seventeen arriving only after a wait of years, highlighting a pivotal age.
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