The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-09
MOVIES TAKEN OF
 GOV. ALF LANDON
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| NSVAAVAhACA ALVhAA ~6S S" l "then nothing will. That part of the scenario where Ali rides horse down 6 hill and durn near falls of aughta swing the Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Wyoming delegations l to us on the first ballot"
 1 The Landon movie, which is not wired for sound, but which has inc cidental music dubbed in (and when say dubbed I mean dubbed) !, opens with what probably was the Topeka department of sanitation band, playing Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" Then comes a caption:
 "A busy day at the executive of- flces."
 Seated UncOmfortably
 The caption hickers of after about Q minute and Governor Landon makes his first appearance, seated rather uncomfortably behind Q desk in the Capitol ct Topeka. For some 500 feet the work-mad governor just sits there, thumbing his sus- penders and occasionally nodding his head.
 The picture reaches the first of its half dozen climaxes when the governors daughter, Peggy Ann, Q , junior at Kansas State university, is shown conversing with Q classmate on the stone steps of university building. For vivid treatment of stone steps, I doubt if the movies have ever surpassed the work here.
 You long for Q let down in the suspense at this time, but the die rector, knowing he has you in his clutches, gives you none. From the steps of the state university he whirls you dizzily to the lawn of the Landon home, where the governor is shown pushing his two small children in Q swing.
 Terrier Pup Is Taken
 Just when you begin to feel that you can't bear to see the governor send the little ones rocketing i've feet into the air again, the director (Lubitsch, maybe) wisely cuts in a shot of the presidential nominees terrier pup rolling about in a sand pile. The arrival of the pup is 50 unexpected, and makes 50 little sense, that you find yourself laugh ing and wondering wottinell's com- ing next.
 Your nerves eased by this comedy relief, the director Uubitsch just denied having anything to do with 1t, 50 it's probably De Mille) bangs you smack into Q gripping climax. Without warning, Governor Landon walks across 8 stableyard and starts climbing up on horse bigger and biacker than Bold Venture. Be- fore you can cry out and warn him, he is aboard and heading of toward Q clumb of woods.
 On Out of Sight
 The horse proceeds on out of sight behind a clump of bushes and the director (De Mile just threatened to sue for libel, SO 1t must have been von Stromberg) with fine feeling for the beauties of nature. sweeps the hillside with his camera. The result is e starkly vivid pres entation of Q meas of blackberry bushes and weeds.
 The horse finally fights his way through the thicket. and to the edge of a fairly steep hill. Having al- ready noticed the governors ten- dency to bounce in the saddle. you fear for the worst when he starts down. Your sympathies quickly shift to the horse, however, when the descent begins. for the governor gives Dobbin's neck . sweet going over. It is this ride that the Borah man is counting on to swing the southwestern states to him man.
 The fadeout is . shot of the Capi- tol dome at Washington. with the Stars and Stripes dutteEing in c