THE FOXES OF HARROW
(20th Century-Fox) HAT M.G.M. did to Spencer Tracy in Cass Timberlane is as nothing compared with what the early 19th Century Foxes ,of Harrow and the 20th Century Foxes of Hollywood do to Rex Harrison. When we first meet Mr. Har-rison-on a sandbank in the middle of the lower Mississippi, where he has been unceremoniously marooned for a trifling irregularity at a river-steamer card-tablo -he is almost on the uppers of his elastic-sided boots (the time is around 1830). Providentially rescued by Victor McLaglen, he speedily establishes himself in the good graces of New Orleans society through his facility at pontoon (Sacre bleu! I mean vingt-et-un) -by which he fleeces the town’s bad man prior to finishing him off properly in a duel. From that point on there seems to be no stopping him. He builds a great house, imports slaves, exports cotton, and almost overnight becomes the commercial kingfish of Louisiana. Then the stockmarket takes a dive. He gets hammered on ’Change, clouted on the cotton-market and leathered at Lloyds (he has’ also acquired shipping interests). Somewhere about this point. the lights go up. "Ze less said about zis affaire ze bettaire," remarks one of the characters, in the quaint patois of old New Orleans, _ Absolument, as the French say.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 461, 23 April 1948, Page 24
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215THE FOXES OF HARROW New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 461, 23 April 1948, Page 24
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