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Regent of the Bamangwato tribe is a handsome young man known as Tshekedi. He was educated in Britain at great expense, speaks English like an actor. His administration had been exemplary but, faced with the case of lewd Phineas Mackintosh, he ordered him tried by a native court, had him flogged within an inch of his life...
...lady whose daughter has run away. If disappointed because no Judge Crater came for the $10,000 last week, First National nonetheless had reason to be satisfied with its advertising trick. Captain Ayers, who saw the picture while waiting for claimants to appear, pronounced it authentic and ingenious, complimented Actor Stone, pointed out that his underlings, unlike Captain Webb's, are forbidden to chew gum. Penthouse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemaddicts who have never been there must have confused ideas about Manhattan. Lady for a Day exhibits the city as a paradise for addle-headed apple vendors. Bureau of Missing...
...cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor, the rest of the picture is fairly entertaining because Frank Morgan and Alice Brady give such good performances...
...racket, collecting $2,000 a day from deluded women who sent in $1 for six pairs of silk stockings. Untycoonlike confusion came over the venerable businessman. He stammered as if with stage fright, finally broke down, confessed he was not Maxwell H. Brown but Theodore C. Packard, 65, unemployed actor. He said he had accepted an offer of $250 to play the part of a big businessman for half an hour. Said...
Last week indigent Actor Packard was indicted along with Solomon Sugarman (disbarred attorney), George Gopin (once convicted of impersonating a Prohibition agent). Paul Rosen, Ruben Hirsch, Irving Cohen et al. No indictment was returned against Maxwell H. Brown. He had never existed. His name had been signed to letters by an 18-year-old office...